[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)



Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
>  On 11/18/08 01:19, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Monday 17 November 2008, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote 
> > about 'Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)':
> >> Your email, though text, is really a quoted-printable attachment.
> >> Tbird displays it as text, but eliminates the pgp-signature and the
> >> list-supplied signature.

And (sorry) looks ugly in slrn.

> > Yes, that's the S/MIME standard for signed email.  Well, the extra 
> > signature at the bottom isn't, but that's not part of the message I send 
> > the mailing list.
> > 
> > AFAIK, there's no List Policy against 7-bit clean mail (which requires 
> > either UUENCODE or quoted-printable [or bans all non-ASCI characters]) or 
> > cryptographic signatures of a reasonable (and fixed no less!) length.
> 
>  The only issue I see with it is that each line ends with a "=20" and 
>  that text MUAs might not filter that part out.

I see that also (slrn).

>  Also, it might (or might not...) be a Tbird bug that it doesn't show 
>  the UNSUBSCRIBE signature.

Tbird.  I see the list sig also.


-- 
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)    http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html      Linux Counter #80292
- -    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html    Please, don't Cc: me.


Reply to: