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Re: List postings as attachments



On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 19:41, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:42:02AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> | On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 01:49, Claudio Bley 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). 
> | 
> | Just for completenes' sake: rfc2015 has since been replaced by rfc3156.
> 
> Nope, 3156 just updates 2015.  See the headers of 3156.

Sorry, my bad.

I'm not entirely clear, however, why it does not replace it - on a short
glance 3156 seems to contain the whole thing, not just changes?

(Not that familiar with the wonders of how rfcs get produced)

cheers
-- vbi

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