On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 07:47:29AM -0400, Maximilien Just wrote:
> Hi Tim.
>
> I don't know wether I'm the only one feeling this way but I'd really like to
> see you stop sending everything as an attachment, even very short messages.
>
> I can understand for copies of logs, but shouldn't you give your answer and
> mention something like "see attachment" for further details.
>
> I know you contribute a lot to this list, so apologies if you write down
> your comments offline because of an expensive ISP.
Okay, I'm going to try to explain what's happening when you
see these multiple attachments.
My user agent implements PGP signatures according to RFC
2015. As far as I can tell this is an Internet proposed
standard (but not a full standard).
Microsoft Outlook (and probably some other user agents)
does not understand multipart/signed in the same way
as other user agents.
Thus, the message appears as two separate attachments
or MIME parts, the first as type text/plain and the
second as type application/pgp-signature. The message
is of type multipart/signed.
I've found that I like using PGP to digitally sign
my messages. I have a couple of choices to make.
A) Use a proposed Internet standard for composing
PGP signed messages
B) Use a non-standard method which may or may not
be supported by user agents.
C) Don't use PGP.
I chose A. Sorry for any inconvenience this may
have caused you.
Honestly, the only problems I've heard of from
people reading my email were from those using
Microsoft Outlook or some variant. If someone
using a non-Microsoft mail reader has problems
I'd like them to speak up and let me know.
Tim
--
Tim Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Software Developer/Systems Administrator/RDBMS Specialist/Linux Advocate
University of Waterloo Honours Co-op Combinatorics & Optimization
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." -- Mark Twain
PGP signature
