On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:37:17AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: > Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific > individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit of > opening ANY attachment, not even from friends I know well, and this is quite > disconcerting.
This may be because of one little line I saw in the headers of your message: >>> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Outlook Express does not understand the multipart/signed mime convention, and so instead of realizing that someone is sending a compliant pgp signed message, along with the signature (both as attachments with a directive to display them inline), it just shows you an empty message with two attachments, one text and one something else (the signature). There are a few solutions. Send your customer feedback to M$ that you would like an email client that conforms to the standard (I think it's RFC 1847). Use Outlook instead of Outlook Express. Use a non-M$ mail client (I'm pretty sure Eudora does the Right Thing(tm)). In most places, this won't be a problem because nobody seems to care about security over email, and so people, for the most part, do not sign messages. And when they do, they use a deprecated method to conform with the M$ world. If we begin to see a larger proliferation of email encryption beyond a few open source geeks, either the standard will be adopted to conform to M$ or they might produce a compliant client. -ben p.s. This message is not signed so that Royce may read it without fear of opening an attachment. -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications.
