[aclug-L] Re: List software reformating mime messages.

["Jonathan Hall" <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If it is important to you to sign something on the list, you can do a simple
cut-and-paste, so that the ascii-armored signature shows up in the body of
the message rather than as an attachment.

Most/all PGP/GPG enabled mail clients will understand this.  Granted, it's
less automatic on your end, but on the receiving end it's just as good.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Noah Romer" <nromer@xxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:36 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: List software reformating mime messages.


> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 17:31, Dale W Hodge wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx
[mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> > > Behalf Of Noah Romer
> >
> > > I don't know if this has been discussed before, but it appears that
the
> > > list software is removing mime-encoding from messages before sending
> > > them out. One consequence of this is that signed emails can't be
> > > automatically verfied by email programs that have such functionality
> > > (such as Evolution).
> >
> > That is correct, we don't allow binary attachments on the list. I don't
> > think there's a need to sign messages going to a mailing list.   Unless
> > someone can offer a compelling enough reason to change this policy, the
list
> > will remain this way.
>
> I can understand not allowing binary attachments. The gpg/pgp
> signatures, though, aren't binary attachments. They are ascii armored
> attachments with Content-Type set to "application/pgp-signature"
> (http://www.eskimo.com/~klevin/sig-message.prelist.txt).
>
> Anywho, I wasn't sure if this was something that had been discussed
> previously (being a newcomer to the LUG), so I thought I would ask.
> Personaly, I have Evolution set to sign every message I send.
>
> --
> Noah Romer          | Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
> klevin@xxxxxxxxxx   | -- Paul Gauguin
> PGP key available   |
> by finger or email  |
>
>
> -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
> -- File: signature.asc
> -- Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQA999oIlLomsl8y7WkRAok8AJsEnHMohwDY0s3B+WmX+9piFfmyXACeLbEw
> oR01OLxYHmfVjiN/wnYFwPM=
> =nbgn
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
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