> From: Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 19 Sep 2008 12:21:19 GMT > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On 2008-09-19, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Firstly, the original of this thread root has been demimed out of > > existence by the mail to news gateway. I thought the official line is > > that what went out to the mailing list was the same that which went to > > the newsgroup. > > Thank-you so much for your sarcasm. It goes so far in helping to make > things work better. > > All articles which are posted to the news-group are forwarded to the > mailing list after MIME stripping (see the further discussion below). > > All messages which are posted to the mailing list, with a very small > number of exceptions, are injected to the news group. > > > All that remains is: > > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type multipart/signed] > > This occured because the OP insists on digitally signing his mailing list > posts. > > In the past we have received numerous loud complaints which voiced > strong objections to certain types of content crossing the gateway from > mail to news. Vociferous complaints have been made about virtually every > form of content which is not plain text. > > We have also received numerous complaints about undesireable content > (e.g. MI5 complaints) propagating from news to mail. > > We have made an effort to ensure that _only_ the content and formatting > which has been deemed acceptable by the participants in this news group > is allowed to propagate from mail to news. > > Unfortunately in the _very_ few cases that something not been processed > correctly we receive more complaints. > > So far no one, not even _you_, has come forward with any vaguely > constructive suggestions. Nor has anyone displayed an interest in doing > anything more than mashing their reply button. > > > Please reply in plain text, > > I have directly contact the OP each time that he sends a signed message > and asked that he resend the message without the signature. To this date > he has failed to do so. > > -- > Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions >
Sorry, but my e-mail system is configured to sign ALL messages. This is simply the policy. I just sent out one that I tried to over-ride that. I don't know if it worked as it's not supposed to be "over-rideable". I'm doing the same with this one, so it may or may not go out. I don't deal with Usenet server software and have not for about 15 years, so I can't claim to know what "state-of-the-art" is, but dumping a message because of it being MIME, a standard that has been supported in most mail software for over 15 years, when the type of the mail "part" is test/plain, baffles me. If the gateway wants to dump the signature, that's no big deal, but I don't know why it would dump the text/plain part. The whole idea of signed clear-text was that it would "just work" with all software, whether it "knew" anything about PGP or even MIME. None the less, it's a volunteer effort and I can't really complain unless I'm willing to do it, myself, and I'm not. I guess I'll just have to live with a lot of folks not seeing my occasional messages. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
