From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 16 19:05:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16864 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16856 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 02:05:42 GMT (envelope-from andrew@zeta.org.au) Received: from gurney.reilly.home (d24.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.24]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA11906; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:01:55 +1000 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by gurney.reilly.home (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA06765; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:10:56 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly Message-Id: <199804162310.JAA06765@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:10:56 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: Digitally Signed Messages (Re: HEADS UP: CAM cutover in two wee ks.) To: hetzels@westbend.net cc: reilly@zeta.org.au, michael_class@hp.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <006801bd6947$ea64a1e0$c3e0d9cf@admin.westbend.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Apr, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > > My Mailer isn't broken, I just wasn't expecting it from this list. And the > extra steps I had to take to read the message. And I was just saying that most of the mailers that I've encountered do not require extra steps to read the message, and so I concluded that one that does must be broken by design. > The real question is does Digitally Signed Messages, and HTML belong on a > Mailing list? Absolutely NOT. HTML is a bit irksome (at the moment---I can see it becoming more and more acceptable with time), but I fail to see how message signing is a nuissance to anyone. Ultimately, I expect all e-mail to be digitally signed by default. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message