Re: Bug#3253: Pine over-encodes files (came from Bug#932)
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
>
> Dale> I must point out that there are several Debian maintainers who submit
> Dale> their upload announcements as attachments. I find this so obnoxious
> Dale> that I just delete such mail, out of hand.
>
> You will get flamed for this, and rightly so.
>
> All that these maintainer, your's truly included, do is to use mailcrypt to
> PGP sign a posting. Emacs doesn't even know what an attachment is. Too bad
> for pine, or rather the pine user, if this encoding isn't recognised
> properly.
Well, Dirk, you have misunderstood. I have no problem with pgp signed
posting, they pop right up, no problem. We were talking about attachments
and mime encoding.
There is no need to mime encode the changes file as the check sums are
already composed of a tamper resistant character set and will come through
fine.
>
> We won't get anywhere with this discussion. We heard it all before. Pine
> exists, and some users will want it. Such is life. Let's not unload our
> frustation with an upstream design issue on the Debian maintainer. We all
> have things to do.
>
Thank you for your productive position.
Later,
Dwarf
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