On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 11:57:14AM -0000, Andy Wedge wrote: > Like many, I use Outlook and each mail from David shows it has a 1KB > attachment which is irritating when all it contains is details about the > get_iplayer mailing lists, URL and email address. I get the same with emails > from Jonathan W but they also contain another 1KB attachment 'signature.asc' > which contains a PGP signature code. They're very much in the minority as > pretty much everyone else's email show just fine.
Because David signs his mail with X.509, and I with OpenPGP. Outlook always shows the unsigned parts as attachments (apparantly, it reduces user confusion over which parts are signed). > All this bottom posting guff is just so called 'netiquette' and not default > behaviour for many email clients I have used, including Outlook. It does > however, keep emails relatively small and focussed. I do find it somewhat > ironic that though, that we discuss utilities that allow us to download > gigabytes of audio & video in a style that dates back to the ark when a > 9.6Kbps modem was considered blindingly quick. It's not guff, it's simple ettiquette to take the time to format email properly, trim quotes and so on. Consider the now-infamous quote on the kernel mailing list[1]: | A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. | Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? | A: Top-posting. | Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? | | A: No. | Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? 1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/11/111 Please don't forget about those of us with text-only clients and a terminal to hand. 'Default behaviour' doesn't make it considerate; our culture of not applauding an orchestra between symphonic movements goes back much further, is that also ironic guff? > Happy New Year to all. > > Andy > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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