[X4U] list ettiguette faux pas

[Zane H. Healy]

At 6:18 AM -0800 11/5/07, Jim Robertson wrote:
>On 11/3/07 10:16 AM, "Jim Robertson" <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:

>  > A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
>
>OOPS!

<SNIP>

>I've been experimenting with PGP. It works (unfortunately) about as well as
>the Mac/PC commercial where the sunglass-enhanced CIA-types looking over
>PC's shoulder chant repeatedly "cancel or allow" .
>
>The non-text attachment was merely my PGP digital signature, which can't be
>parsed by many recipient email servers (and, as far as I know, by NO webmail
>interfaces).

Actually if all you did was have your PGP digital signature attached 
there was no faux pas on your part as far as I'm concerned.  It is 
more of a bug or misconfiguration in the mail-list software, as that 
should logically be allowed and encouraged.  I'd never even thought 
about this before, but I suspect that pretty much all mail-lists out 
there would react the same way.

I don't even trust the Mac for data I want to keep safe, so I've not 
researched the current state of encryption software on the Mac.  Have 
you looked into using GPG?  It is opensource and I would be more 
inclined to trust it over PGP.  I just don't know how well it will 
work with a Mac.

Zane


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