X-No-Archive: Yes > On Tue, 20 May 2008 13:22:40 -0400 > "Jerry Clancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Jerry, > >> Would somebody please tell me why virtually every post from her has >> an empty message with an attachment? I don't open attachments unless >> necessary. > > It's because of the fact that Michelle electronically "signs" messages > with PGP. OE, which I see from message headers you're using, for > reasons known only to Microsoft, renders messages signed that way as > attachments. This only applies to messages that have PGP signatures > as attachments, not the deprecated inline signature, which is the M$ > preferred method.
True. I also see her and Feldman's posts as attachments as will the majority of OE and some other clienst do. She made me curious, so I did look into it. IMO it's pretty much a waste of time and ether to be bothering with PGP or any such cert-based methods in a newsgroup. And the few others in other groups who do so usually know enough to include the proper format so that it won't show up an attachment. For whatever reason, this is the only usenet group I have even come across where this is done. It's their right to do so, regardless, so to each his own, but that said, I'll still not open an attachment in an empty post/e-mail unless there is a compelling reason to do so. And there isn't, here. The first time someone gets sucked in by a poser who used, say, PGP, to make it look like just another blank post with an attachment from her and it actually turns out to be have a malicious palyload, well, ... . There is a very good and relevant reason that I read posts AND e-mails as 7-bit text only; it's called common sense. Allowing a blank e-mail with an attachment to appear is a great way to make sure the mainstream of users ignore reading your posts. Which I now again will do, my curiousity now sated. -- Just Twayne, with his 2 ยข --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
