Re: List postings as attachments

[grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)]

In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 01:04, David De Graff wrote:
>> Why do some list postings arrive as attachments? Is this dependent on the
>> mail client used to read list mail?
> 
> I suppose you refer to the messages that have a content-type of
> multipart/signed? This is a standard way of signing a email message as
> defined by RFC 2015 (in 1996 btw).

The right way has been defined for 6+ years and everybody but
MS seems to do it.  That means that after about 5 more years,
Microsoft will impliment a broken, incompatible version of the
standard and claim to have invented it.

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