----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Combs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 7:54 PM
> > I have noticed that outlook (at least older versions did) will make it > > look like an empty message with a weird attachment (that is your real > > message). Obviously outlook is the broken one, but no wonder they get > > confused... > > It still is broke (at least Outlook Express still does them wrong) "[Doing it] wrong" seems to be a matter of opinion at this point. The RFC Index, which can be found at http://www.ietf.org/iesg/1rfc_index.txt lists the status of all RFCs. The two that appear to deal with this issue are still in the proposed state, even after 8 years. It doesn't seem fair to demonize Outlook and Outlook Express (a popular pastime) for failing to adopt a proposed standard before it has become official. 2015 MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). M. Elkins. October 1996. (Format: TXT=14223 bytes) (Updated by RFC3156) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) 3156 MIME Security with OpenPGP. M. Elkins, D. Del Torto, R. Levien, T. Roessler. August 2001. (Format: TXT=26809 bytes) (Updates RFC2015) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) Michael Halcrow proposed a standard response to those who are confused about this issue. Another author on the web has posted a page to deal with this issue. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html He seems to be making the same error of assuming that this is already a standard, when the document I cited above (updated on Valentine's Day of this year) indicates that this is still in the proposal stage. Am I misinterpreting this? Incidentally, I read all my email in Outlook Express and find it to be quite efficient. For those few on the list who sign their emails, I generally don't read them directly. Usually, if they had something interesting to add, they are quoted by a later author and I don't miss what they had to say. That is nice, because I continue to learn from the discussions on this list and it helps me keep up with several different UNIX related issues that don't directly pertain to my own distribution. Thanks again for all the useful information you provide. It has come in handy often. Bradley Ross ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
