From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 17:51: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD3E37B611 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 135FtR-000Agb-00; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:56:17 +0100 Received: from ben by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #5) id 135FtR-000CCr-00; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:56:17 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:56:16 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Troy Settle Cc: Generic Player , James A Wilde , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can I install FREEBSD on windows NT Message-ID: <20000622235616.U57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000622160244.P57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZcaUvQ23gCOmDTXi" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ZcaUvQ23gCOmDTXi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Troy Settle wrote: > It was the "stationary" that was used by the original poster. So why on God's earth does everybody copy it when replying? Another of Microsoft's "ideas", I guess. > Might I ask what that "ATT00033.DAT" attachment was on your email? That was a PGP/MIME signature. This is a standard, defined in RFC 2015, and it is useful unlike the Microsoft "stationary" crap which has no use whatsoever and is not any sort of standard. If your MUA can't handle PGP/MIME I suggest you find a MUA which is little less outdated. > C'mon people, my MUA (Outlook 2k) can handle text, html, rtf, and > other messages just fine. But it's simply rude to keep tossing around > these mime messages. Perhaps we should petition the maintainers of > the freebsd lists to apply some rules to reject any message with > attachments or mime types other than text/plain. No, some attachments are useful. PGP/MIME signatures for one. I've probably attached small patches or C source files in messages to this list (they may well be text/plain though, I'm not sure). I think the only messages which need banning are multipart/alternative. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --ZcaUvQ23gCOmDTXi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: xfJENhHTinLb0s6kW75VNJXqAj27AQHP iQCVAwUBOVKZkCsPVtiZOS99AQGwvQQAiwHp5VR3qUzhpB9P+tCe7zqoLuaL0qrO dnQyYzOBoaFnE7Tfj6K5wDE879cfB9LmnwLeGlNSH2Rtt0TJSffaPm7c+TdUHum8 b9aR/5F96EXlB9jjXk/jXsBmS8vQD6gPNUsk4uHixlT/riANQEAWFemiVgQOQ+7R 5lZRGLWX3dM= =Gdge -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZcaUvQ23gCOmDTXi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message