On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:39:53PM NZDT, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:27, Don Gould wrote: > > Personally I think that the list manager should set the list to 'not' > > forward attachments. > > Why, if people followed the etiquette it would not be necessary :-) > Although I well know that it is damned hard to remember to turn your > vcards on and off for different recipients, which is why I gave up on > them in favour of a signature (not that it is set up on this client on > this box). (And after being told off on various mailing lists :-)
That's where the beauty of some mail user agents come into play. I'm sure others are capable of this, too, but I know mutt can behave differently based on the address sending too, or the folder currently being read, or a number of other situations (and combinations of these). For instance, I like to sign my messages with gpg. In the cases of mailing lists that don't accept attachments, I can use a clear text signature instead of pgp/mime. In Don's case, he could easily arrange so that his vcard[1] is attached to all messages except known mailing lists, or something similar. Greg --- - [1] vcard is actually a very large standard. When I was last looking into it, I found that all the implementations fell short of the full spec. For the most part, no one would notice what was missing, but I hope that the situation has changed.
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