Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:07:16 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 15.04.2012 00:53, Camaleón kirjoitti: <...> >> >> P.S. I find quite hard to understand why there are users who despite >> consider my postings to be sort a "newbie killers" and "soft-mind >> perverters" are still replying to them. The

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-15 Thread Mika Suomalainen
15.04.2012 00:53, Camaleón kirjoitti: <...> > > P.S. I find quite hard to understand why there are users who despite > consider my postings to be sort a "newbie killers" and "soft-mind > perverters" are still replying to them. The only conclusion I can reach > for this behaviour is that: 1/ my

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:59:02 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 05:03:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> «In the interleaved reply style (also called "inline reply", "point-by- >> point rebuttal", or, sometimes, "bottom posting")...» >^^

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 05:03:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: > «In the interleaved reply style (also called "inline reply", "point-by- > point rebuttal", or, sometimes, "bottom posting")...» ^^^ > «In the "bottom-posting" style, the reply is appended to

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:38:59PM -0700, Al Eridani wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > > But you said above, and I quote: > > > > 'A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the bottom" > > > > and now you are saying in response to > > > > "So

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:18:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 11 apr 12, 17:03:41, Camaleón wrote: >> >> «In the "bottom-posting" style, the reply is appended to a full or >> partial copy of the original message. The name bottom-posting is >> sometimes used for inline-style replies, and inde

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 apr 12, 17:03:41, Camaleón wrote: > > «In the "bottom-posting" style, the reply is appended to a full or > partial copy of the original message. The name bottom-posting is > sometimes used for inline-style replies, and indeed the two formats are > the same when only one point is being

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 11.04.2012 19:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:27:56, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> > >> I promise to move to PGP/MIME (with clients which are compatible with > >> it) when you have told me how do I verify PGP/MIME signature manuall

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > But you mentioned mutt in the other post, does slrn use mutt for=20 > posting? Mutt has no trouble reply'ing even to it's own bad messages. I am reading in slrn, which is configured to use mutt to reply. Unfortunately, the mailtonews gateway is stri

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:51:48 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 11 apr 12, 15:44:29, Camaleón wrote: >> >> > Just because somebody chooses to stay out of this thread does not >> > mean one automatically agrees with you ;) >> >> It's not *me* who says so, it's written in the Wikipedia article,

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 apr 12, 15:44:29, Camaleón wrote: > > > Just because somebody chooses to stay out of this thread does not mean > > one automatically agrees with you ;) > > It's not *me* who says so, it's written in the Wikipedia article, you > will have to ask the author why he/she thinks so :-) That

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 apr 12, 11:11:57, Indulekha wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Unless you went out of your way to include the signature in the reply=20 > > there is a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed. > > > > Forgot to mention, I do read this list on usenet via slrn -- >

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 11 April 2012 17:06:15 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 apr 12, 11:32:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > When you send mail that is important it be reliably attributed to you - > > make sure you sign it properly, with a published key endorsed by a > > well-known (easily verifiable) chain o

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread PMA
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:15:49, PMA wrote: P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to fight, as they

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 11.04.2012 19:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:27:56, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> >> I promise to move to PGP/MIME (with clients which are compatible with >> it) when you have told me how do I verify PGP/MIME signature manually. I >> have been trying to do it for 45 minutes withou

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Unless you went out of your way to include the signature in the reply=20 > there is a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed. > Forgot to mention, I do read this list on usenet via slrn -- in case that might have something to do with it... Stuck on d

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:27:56, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > I promise to move to PGP/MIME (with clients which are compatible with > it) when you have told me how do I verify PGP/MIME signature manually. I > have been trying to do it for 45 minutes without getting anything else > than message about BAD

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [note: obnoxious superfluous quoting not edited out,for the sake of illustration] > > --H4SyuGOnfnj3aJqJ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sb, 07 apr 12, 18:52:

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 11.04.2012 19:06, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 apr 12, 11:32:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> When you send mail that is important it be reliably attributed to you - >> make sure you sign it properly, with a published key endorsed by a >> well-known (easily verifiable) chain of trust. > >

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:15:49, PMA wrote: > > P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a > Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the > message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to > fight, as they beckon, "Now y'all

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 08 apr 12, 11:32:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > When you send mail that is important it be reliably attributed to you - > make sure you sign it properly, with a published key endorsed by a > well-known (easily verifiable) chain of trust. I hereby apologize to the list for not living close

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 07 apr 12, 18:52:08, Indulekha wrote: > > No downside at all then, eh? Mutt used to have a flea (bug) that would incorrectly set disposition=inline on pgp/mime attachments, but Joey seems to be using a fixed version. Unless you went out of your way to include the signature in the reply

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:26:12 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 09 apr 12, 13:34:59, Camaleón wrote: >> >> To me (and everybody else), both are almost the same. > > Could you please explain the "everybody else" part? As I guess you've followed the whole thread, what's exactly what you don't

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 09 apr 12, 13:34:59, Camaleón wrote: > > To me (and everybody else), both are almost the same. Could you please explain the "everybody else" part? Just because somebody chooses to stay out of this thread does not mean one automatically agrees with you ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopi

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-10 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:30:29 -0500, Bob Proulx wrote: No one gains anything from it. Why does anyone do any of the bad things that they do? But that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. People do spoof messages. It is a fact. If I am good for nothing else in this life then at least I can b

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-09 Thread Al Eridani
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > But you said above, and I quote: > > 'A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the bottom" > > and now you are saying in response to > > "So what's it called when you plonk everything at the bottom, oops > sorry, at the

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-09 Thread PMA
Scott Ferguson wrote: Hopefully ending this thread, and providing reading material for others with similar queries and concerns. Amen. Icedove => Toolbar => Account Settings => Composition and Addressing Tick "Automatically quote the original message when replying" and select "then start my

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-09 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:48:23 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 02:18:48PM +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > So what's it called when you plonk everything at the bottom, oops >> > sorry, at the very end? End posting? >> >> That's also "bottom posting". No need to reinvent t

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:09:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 16:33:42 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > > In linux.debian.user, Brian wrote: > > > > > > I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another > > > topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave o

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:03:21AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 08 April 2012 23:06:24 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 07:28:56PM +0100, keith mckenzie wrote: > > > Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is > > > to send his messages straight to 't

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-09 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 08 April 2012 23:06:24 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 07:28:56PM +0100, keith mckenzie wrote: > > Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is > > to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of > > meaningless numbers/lett

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 07:33, Indulekha wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Brian wrote: >> >> I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another >> topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian >> mailing list? :-D >> > > So IOW you started all this, but now the people

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
Hopefully ending this thread, and providing reading material for others with similar queries and concerns. On 09/04/12 02:15, PMA wrote: > > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a > Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 01:55, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [I've posted my reply on d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org] > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:46:11PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > (...) > > Interested parties ... please head to > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > http:

Re: [OT] Posting styles (PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 01:32, Joey Hess wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote (remainder of your trolling ignored): >>> as this will habituate people to expect your mail to be signed, >> >> Nope. Wishful thinking at best. > > True story: Last weekend, I sent a friend an email to get him come > help me move a couch.

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
For the record on this issue, here is my opinion. 1) A reply should be entered immediately below the text to which it specifically responds; 2) a signature, of whatever kind, should be no longer than needed to verify sender identity. I will not defend these assertions, and hope to say no

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/08/2012 02:28 PM, keith mckenzie wrote: > Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is > to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of > meaningless numbers/letters,& no more requests for confirmation; life > has returned to normal. :) > >

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:11:23 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > In linux.debian.user, keith mckenzie wrote: >> Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', >> is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of >> meaningless numbers/letters,& no more requests

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 16:33:42 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > >> In linux.debian.user, Brian wrote: >> > >> > I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another >> > topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian >> > mailing

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Wayne Topa wrote: > Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > Do you think that it would be better if people spoofed my email and > > sent offensive messages to the list and noone had any way to check did > > I really sent those messages? > > Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail. > > I have been on this list for

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120407_143810, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:21:44AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:02:12 +0300 > > > Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > > > > The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 16:33:42 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Brian wrote: > > > > I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another > > topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian > > mailing list? > > > > So IOW you started all this,

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 07:28:56PM +0100, keith mckenzie wrote: > Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to > send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless > numbers/letters,& no more requests for confirmation; life has returned to

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Brian wrote: > > I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another > topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian > mailing list? > So IOW you started all this, but now the people discussing it have "bad manners"? That doesn't quit

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:55:11AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 09/04/12 00:18, � wrote: > > On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:47:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > > > A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to t

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 at 18:53:09 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > There are many kinds of people, so everyone has different opinion > about top/bottom posting :) And where better to express these opinions but on a technically oriented list like debian-user. Nine days and 120+ posts later the end is

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, keith mckenzie wrote: > Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', > is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls > of meaningless numbers/letters,& no more requests for confirmation; > life has returned to normal. :) Th

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 02:18:48PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:47:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> >> A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the > >> >> bottom" > >> > > >> > Yes it do

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread keith mckenzie
Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless numbers/letters,& no more requests for confirmation; life has returned to normal. :) -- Sent from Free Open Source Software Debian GNU/Li

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 21:13, Mika Suomalainen wrote: <...> > > > I know that email clients can do it automatically, but there are > rare cases when it's necessary to verify signatures manually. > Oh, and people who want to make the issue that PGP/MIME supp

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 18:12, Chris Bannister wrote: <...> > The mail client should do all that for you. > >> Verifying PGP/MIME signature = ? > > ditto. > > I use the mutt email client and so don't know off hand but do any > of these help: > > http://ask.m

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
Lisi wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2012 17:15:49 PMA wrote: P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to fight, as they bec

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 08 April 2012 17:15:49 PMA wrote: > P.S.  I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a >          Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the >          message (like the two at top here).  They're what I have to >          fight, as they beckon, "Now

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
Scott Ferguson wrote: ... Which part of "my bad - I'd mistaken you for someone trolling" did you not understand? You're too quick to claim offence. I know this last is true. If caught in it I've offended you 'too', I'm sorry. The LilyPond list (a digital-music-scoring site) had been deb

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
[I've posted my reply on d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org] On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:46:11PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: (...) Interested parties ... please head to d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Joey Hess
Scott Ferguson wrote (remainder of your trolling ignored): > > as this will habituate people to expect your mail to be signed, > > Nope. Wishful thinking at best. True story: Last weekend, I sent a friend an email to get him come help me move a couch. For complex reasons I neglected to sign it. M

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 03:07:40PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Configuring Icedove to use PGP/MIME is just two clicks. If you read > all messages, you know that I will move to PGP/MIME when anyone on > this list explains to me how do I manually verify signature with PGP/MIME. > > Verifying IN

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 00:32, PMA wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 08/04/12 23:54, PMA wrote: >> >> >>> I was caught up thinking how a personal signature -- choosing in a >>> given instance to enter it or not -- can affect a message's import, >>> separately from the issue of verification. >> >> Oh good -

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-08 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Chris Bannister wrote: > > No, you are confused. There are three entirely different distinct styles: > 1) Top posting > 2) Bottom posting > 3) Interleaved, inline, conversation. style. > > Therefore, it makes sense to have *THREE* different definitions. > correct? > There are

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 00:18, � wrote: > On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:47:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the > bottom" Yes it does! That is what bottom posting is. >>>

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 08/04/12 23:54, PMA wrote: I was caught up thinking how a personal signature -- choosing in a given instance to enter it or not -- can affect a message's import, separately from the issue of verification. Oh good - I couldn't get my head around it when applied to a d

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 12:27:56PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > If GPG INLINE signature is so big problem to everyone on this list, lets > make agreement. > > I promise to move to PGP/MIME (with clients which are compatible with > it) when you have told me how do I verify PGP/MIME signature ma

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:47:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the >> >> bottom" >> > >> > Yes it does! That is what bottom posting is. >> >> No sir, is just the name what i

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 23:54, PMA wrote: > I was caught up thinking how a personal signature -- choosing in a > given instance to enter it or not -- can affect a message's import, > separately from the issue of verification. Oh good - I couldn't get my head around it when applied to a digital signature u

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread keith
Chris Bannister wrote: Some people say that if you get a laptop with a finger identification setup on it you are safer, I say, the opposite, I want to keep all my fingers. All that does is prevent someone seeing your password -- Sent from Free Open Source Software Debian GNU/Linux --

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
Scott Ferguson wrote: ... I take that you are unable to defend your assertion that signing has a point without having to validate the sender. ie. it demonstrates that the email from an unverified sender is verified. Almost. I was caught up thinking how a personal signature -- choosing in a give

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 22:36, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:55:06PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 08/04/12 12:26, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> I suppose you mean encrypting, you can still read signed mail. The point >>> to note is that *if suddenly* two people start encrypting their m

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:59:38PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Though it's worth pointing out that the terms "interleaved, inline, > conversation, etc." are relatively new - reflecting, perhaps, a > longer-standing practice. I can remember religious arguments about > top vs. bottom posting back

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
Chris Bannister wrote: [Please trim your posts on this mailing list] On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:14:34AM -0400, PMA wrote: I'm not sure "utterly" is quite the word. Nobody in signing thinks a signature is needed to identify him. You're not confusing the cryptographic signature with the norma

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:55:06PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 08/04/12 12:26, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I suppose you mean encrypting, you can still read signed mail. The point > > to note is that *if suddenly* two people start encrypting their mail, > > that alone will set off alarm bells

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 14:01, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:03:54AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > Oh look: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) > Gecko/20120329 Icedove/10.0.3 > >> My whole key is not in signature.

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 13:51, Chris Bannister wrote: <...> >> >> As I have explained at least two times, K9 Mail which I use on >> Android doesn't support S/MIME. It cannot sign nor encrypt nor >> verify S/MIME signatures. > > Oh look! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:03:54AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Oh look: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120329 Icedove/10.0.3 > My whole key is not in signature. The key is this what is attached to > this message. It diplays like so: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 10:36:02AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 07.04.2012 22:10, Joey Hess wrote: > > Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> As far as I know, I have valid signature. That block which was > >> pasted here is shown as invalid, because the one who first > >> started complaining about it

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:05:30AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 08.04.2012 05:05, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:23:35AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> > >> I cannot use S/MIME, because it's not supported by APG nor K9 > >> Mail. > > > > Nice try. :) > > > > Us

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 08.04.2012 12:24, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mika Suomalainen > wrote: >> >> I only press the "sign" button and message is signed correctly and I >> can verify it. > > Then perhaps you could be so kind as to stop pressing the "sign" > button, then. :-) > That

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > I only press the "sign" button and message is signed correctly and I > can verify it. Then perhaps you could be so kind as to stop pressing the "sign" button, then. :-) -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Keith
On 07/04/12 21:49, Indulekha wrote: Of course, that's merely my opinion.:) Not just your opinion, but the opinion of, probably, the silent majority. I also dislike that big block of 'signature'; it's annoying. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 11:12, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 08/04/12 17:48, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> On 08.04.2012 00:25, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen >>> wrote: >> > > > >> >> >> I cannot say that APG and K9 a

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 17:48, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 08.04.2012 00:25, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen >> wrote: > > > > I cannot say that APG and K9 are living in the past, because they are > the only PGP implementation and email client, which supports PGP

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 05:05, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:23:35AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> >> I cannot use S/MIME, because it's not supported by APG nor K9 >> Mail. > > Nice try. :) > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Now thats uncalled for. My point was, that Mika's posts are > difficult to read as it is (because he doesn't trim them) without > all that extra "stuff" at the end. > > I haven't read all the thread yet, so bearing that in mind, I think > it is fine

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 00:25, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen > wrote: > >> GPG Inline signature is easier to verify if you copy-paste that >> email from mailing list archive. > > Not really, since you can just download

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.04.2012 22:10, Joey Hess wrote: > Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> As far as I know, I have valid signature. That block which was >> pasted here is shown as invalid, because the one who first >> started complaining about it didn't use Enigmail and/or p

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:11:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:03:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: Bottom posting has been since long the preferred method for newsgroups and then mailing lists b

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 12:26, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > >> If you and I work together on a secret project for a defense contractor, >> or in banking or something it makes senseto sign business-related emails >> to one another. Yes. Conditional

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:11:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:03:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Bottom posting has been since long the preferred method for newsgroups > >> and then mailing lists but not for

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 10:30, PMA wrote: > > > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Please don't top-post. How hard is it to move the cursor? >> >> On 08/04/12 00:14, PMA wrote: >> >> >> >>> Nobody in signing thinks a signature is needed to identify him. >> >> Nobody? >> >> Are you serious? I take that you are u

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet and > legs dry and clean, I should just wear my big rubber boots everywhere all > time then, right? Then if anyone *cough* *cough* on your leg and tells you its r

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:23:35AM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > I cannot use S/MIME, because it's not supported by APG nor K9 Mail. Nice try. :) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120329 Icedove/10.0.3 But IT IS supported by Icedove/10.0.3, which you can and ob

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your posts on this mailing list] On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:14:34AM -0400, PMA wrote: > I'm not sure "utterly" is quite the word. > Nobody in signing thinks a signature is > needed to identify him. You're not confusing the cryptographic signature with the normal email signature, are

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list.] On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 05:13:52PM -0400, PMA wrote: > Does signing "in-line" specifically mean typing my name into a given email, > or does it include also whatever signature text I've told my email program > to append automatically? No. I don't know the RF

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:48:56PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Apart from Mika... in which case he's best to not sign his posts and > claim his account was hijacked by an idiot. Now thats uncalled for. My point was, that Mika's posts are difficult to read as it is (because he doesn't trim them)

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 05:44, Joey Hess wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail. >> >> I have been on this list for 19 years now and do not recall anyone >> being spoofed. From the tenor of your mails, I doubt anyone would >> gain anything from it. > > This is fallacious, dangerous,

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread PMA
Scott Ferguson wrote: Please don't top-post. How hard is it to move the cursor? On 08/04/12 00:14, PMA wrote: Nobody in signing thinks a signature is needed to identify him. Nobody? Are you serious? Kind regards Not hard whatsoever. I'm afraid that, hearing so much talk here to th

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 00:46, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2012 15:21:44 Indulekha wrote: >> In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: >>> The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on >>> earth ask for a return receipt. > >> It does tend to announce to the recipient that the sender

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
Please don't top-post. How hard is it to move the cursor? On 08/04/12 00:14, PMA wrote: > Nobody in signing thinks a signature is > needed to identify him. Nobody? Are you serious? Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions abo

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Joey Hess wrote: > > --A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Indulekha wrote: >> So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet a= > nd=20 >> legs

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, it is written: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:21:44AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: >> In linux.debian.user, Richard wrote: >> > On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:02:12 +0300 >> > Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> > >> > The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on >> > eart

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Indulekha wrote: > So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet and > legs dry and clean, I should just wear my big rubber boots everywhere all > time then, right? That way whether I'm at the grocery store, the office, or > the barn there'll be no worries. :D A better

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