On Saturday, December 14, 2002, 10:16:51 PM, Simon Blake wrote: ACM>> This is not the case with S/MIME. Can you suppress sending your public ACM>> key block repeatedly and with every message you send using S/MIME? In ACM>> fact, this is my main problem with using it.
> That's not the point here at all really, although it is a valid point of > course. So are you suggesting that The Bat! should not support S/MIME? And > are you suggesting or leading up to a banning of S/MIME use on the list? I am not sure where you get the suggestion that TB! should not support S/MIME from, because I am certainly not suggesting that. What I am suggesting is that S/MIME signing is not necessary in the context of a discussion list where the identity of the poster is not important. Neither am I suggesting that S/MIME or PGP be banned from the list - merely that posters consider the value of signing messages sent to TBUDL and the bandwidth implications, not least for those on the list who use slow and expensive dialup connections. For the record, I have an ADSL connection, so message size does not bother me, although I do have concerns about the "ecology" of the internet (which is why I don't like HTML messages). I feel that you may think that this discussion is an attack on your rights to use S/MIME or PGP, which it certainly is not, and I am sorry if I have given you this impression, Simon. Julian -- Using The Bat! v1.62 Christmas Edition on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
