On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:16 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >> 1) fix software that interprets incoming mails > > > > There is nothing wrong with the software that interprets > > incoming mails; the mails that fail actually fail cryptographic > > checks since they have been masssaged by the MUA/MTA afterwards, > > because the MUA did not do the encoding _before_ signing the body. > > > >> 2) issue an alternate ballot where 'ë' in Raphaël is simplified as > >> 'e' (and we agree that this is the same person as Raphaël) > > > > Which would mean that anyone sending in the current official > > ballot would get their vote rejected, since the integrity checks will > > fail. I am not a proponent of hacking away at unrelated software to > > ameliorate bugs in other software; the problems here seem to be using > > bad MUA software that can't, in this day and age, handle signed mail > > using accented chanracters. > > > >> 3) do not accept DPLs with non-ASCI names. ;-)) > > > > Sure, if you think that is better than fixing broken MUAs. > > I guess you missed the double smiley. > > OK, if you do not accept my suggestions, what about > > 4) Write a rock safe HowTo that enables DDs who are comfortable > using of broken MUAs in their day to day live to vote. > > I'm obviousely hit by two broken MUAs (pine, mailx) and not > willing to spend more then 10 minutes just to send my vote.
Do what Lars did: >From memory (my shell history isn't long enough), here's what I did: 1. Copy ballot to text file (vote.txt). 2. Edit it for my voting preference. 3. Sign with gpg: gpg --clearsign vote.txt 4. Send: mail -s vote < vote.txt.asc [EMAIL PROTECTED] I work in a UTF-8 environment, in case that matters. -----end Lars suggestion -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
