Stephen Hansen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Ben Finney > <bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> rdmur...@bitdance.com writes: >> >>> I don't even see Stephen Hansen's posts. My newsreader just shows >>> the header and says "[HTML part not displayed]". >> >> Likewise. > > Yeah, I know HTML is bad on newsgroups. I didn't realize that when I > installed FireGPG to sign messages while in Gmail that it started > handling my html/plain text content differently. > > Oops. > > That said: Is S/MIME / OpenPGP readable on these various clients? > There's no HTML, the text body is just encoded in base64. > > I haven't actually subscribed to a usenet newsgroup in eons upon eons. > If its not readable as S/MIME then I'll switch to inline PGP... that's > just a slightly terrible solution for other places I have to talk and > I'll have to take extra care to remember to manually check the settings > based upon where I'm talking. > Or configure multiple personalities with the same email address but different settings, so all you have to do is switch personalities appropriately.
> I'm re-sending this same message as the OpenPGP S/MIME attachment format > -- just so test if its actually readable by news clients in general. I > have absolutely no idea. Not touched a news client in years and years, > as I said. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. I run Thunderbird with the OpenPGP add-on, and I hadn't noticed anything at all strange about your posts :). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
