Graham Foster, [GF] wrote: >>Sorry. The burden is on you to make your messages readable for all >>those who may wish to read them. >> > OK - Just thought I'd chip in. Allie - your use of inline signing makes > your messages (and everyone else who does the same) unreadable to me.
> I know it's not your fault - its a problem with our gateway software. > Problem is - should I blame you? If the problem is not with your gateway doing something that it shouldn't resulting in standards compliant PGP/MIME signed messages being munged and the problem is that I'm doing something that is not standard and is known to create problems for many, then yes. Blame me of course. :) Be that as it may, I do wish for you to read my messages without problems. However, it's not an easy situation because of these issues: 1) I need to sign my messages for security reasons. As moderators we don't wish to have anyone impersonating us on, and more importantly, off-list. Our messages are therefore characteristically signed and the key used is consistent for extended periods. This adds to the strength of trust you can put in the public key you have. 2) PGP/MIME's implementation in TB! all but ended a common topic that would crop up on these lists. It was about why the moderators and others were 'unnecessarily' filling up their message bodies with PGP signature stuff. It was distracting unreadable and made reading our messages more difficult than others. :) We surely listened and sympathized but we thought security made it a necessary evil and wished that a solution would come in the form of PGP/MIME ... and it did. So it would seem that there are some who are now having problems with the PGP/MIME signatures. This is a toughy and I'll not just ask that you go ask your company admin to fix his server. I know that is on the unreasonable and impractical side. I'm really not sure what to do here. What would you do in my position Graham? -- Allie Martin [List Moderator and fellow end-user] � My PGP-Keys: http://key.ac-martin.com � The Bat!� v2.13 "Lucky" Beta/7 � Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 2) ..... Paranoia is nothing to be afraid of!! ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
