On 2005-08-04 16:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just say no to inline PGP!
Unfortunately quite a few people still use broken MUAs. Outlook Express doesn't handle PGP/MIME in a good way, last time I looked Eudora didn't do very well either (but admittedly, that was a while ago), and several mailing list providers habitually block any message containing anything other than text/plain parts. (Yahoo Groups, when lists are set to disallow attachments, is one example.) Since we do not live in a perfect world, where everyone's MUA adheres to the relevant standards, and a lot of people (and people running Microsoft software seem to me to be overrepresented in this group) don't want to consider the fact that their software may be misbehaving, there is a need to work around this. Inline PGP signing, while far from perfect, avoids the problem of not being able to communicate with a lot of people while meeting the need of cryptographically signed e-mail. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * ..... No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings ..... *
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