Hello Norbert!
On Saturday, March 31, 2001 at 5:56:36 PM you wrote:
> 1) is it possible with The BAT to include things like X-Mailer in the
> header (whether it is appropriate in this group or not?)
I think not but can be wrong. Marck will know, I hope.
> 2) if the PGP signature has the effect to insert an extra '-' before
> the sig separator, is this a BAT thing, or is that effected by PGP
> and thus independent of the MUA you are using?
As Marck developed on earlier, it is PGP.
> 3) if this extra '-' does not affect the sig separator then why does
> a 'reply' not cut out the signature? I understand that it can
> apparently be done with a special setting in The Bat, but seeing that
> the majority of the people you are corresponding with won't be using
> The Bat, isn't that kind of non standard compliant? I, for example
> have the option in my MUA at home (Mutt) to not show signatures.
> However, the MUA does not recognise the signature as such due to the
> PGP signature inserted '-', and cannot, therefore, cut it out.
Well, I can understand your argument concerning sigs on mailing lists
but for private mail ... You see, any message signed by PGP will have
this "special" delimiter and so every PGP-signed message you receive
will show this. One of the greatnesses of TB! is its use of regular
expressions to filter such things and perform for instance a signature
cut.
PS: If you are interested in more detailed arguments for signing (and
eventually encrypting) have a look at various PGP sites
(http://www.ipgpp.com/ for starters) or the TBUDL archives. There you
will find some messages on all the points you had in your first mail
(PGP, HTML and so on).
And one for Echelon: Nuclear devices on Washington ;-).
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Dierk Haasis
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The Bat 1.52 Beta/1
Windows 95 4.0 1212 C
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