-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Thomas Charron hath spake thusly: > Quoting "Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Your mail had an attachment of type MS-TNEF which is a proprietary > > Microsoft format. Non-MS mail readers have no idea what to do with > > it. If it contained anything you want to share with the list, you'd > > do well to re-post it, as many of us do not use MS mail readers (and > > with very good reason, I might add). > > As opposed to you sending a PGP file attachement that means rubish under > anyone NOT happening to use PGP? For crying out loud, man, he sent out a job > heads up. Talk about poking the avon lady in the eye for ringing the door > bell.. Shesh..
I think you need to get a grip. While I admit I could not resist the opportunity to get in a little parenthetical dig at my favorite company to hate at the end there (which was certainly not directed at the poster, but at Microsoft), the POINT of the message was potentially both useful and helpful. I was pointing out that a potentially very large percentage of the intended audience of that e-mail might not have been able to read some important information that was contained in the attachment. Since I'm one of the people who is unable to read MS-TNEF format, I had *NO IDEA* what was in it, and therefore whether or not it was relevant to the matter at hand. This is a *LINUX* mailing list. By its very nature, many people who read these messages, and therefore who might be interested in the job posting mentioned, CAN NOT READ MS-TNEF. Myself included, and I'm sure many others. As for your comment about my PGP signature: MS-TNEF is proprietary; OpenPGP is an open standard. My PGP signature is also plain text inline, whereas MS-TNEF is undocumented binary rubbish. Anyone who cares to find out what PGP is (assuming they don't already know) can make use of my PGP signature, pretty much regardless of what platform they're using; whereas ONLY people who use MS mailreaders can make use of MS-TNEF, as far as I am aware. What I did NOT know, until just now, is that the contents of this kind of attachment are not only impossible to read unless you're using a MS mailer, but also utterly useless under the same circumstances: http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/T/TNEF.html - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8YwV1djdlQoHP510RAuHwAJ9mk/Pi6cL8oO4dJojOi3Gmk4jg8gCeKZK3 cqU4EBFMU89vwi7vnaqvOAM= =1z9v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
