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 | Just for completenes' sake: rfc2015 has since been replaced by rfc3156.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 -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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