[X-Unix] PGP funkiness...

Doug McNutt douglist at macnauchtan.com
Fri Oct 8 12:57:07 PDT 2004


At 14:09 -0500 10/8/04, Eugene wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:57:37AM -0700, Stan Ulrich wrote:
>: The really annoying thing is that every one of your emails comes with
>: an attachment PGP.sig. This is unique behavior as to your email.
>: Please fix it.
>
>Ummm, that's how PGP works.  Every message sent out includes a copy of
>the sender's public key.  That's how public-key cryptography works.

Stan's point is that your PGP key is not appropriate for a list. Neither, for that matter, are vcf attachments.

Actually the list could flat out refuse postings with attachments but it doesn't.

>From: Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net>
>User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i

You already have a username for this list. Surely your mail client can be selective about which "users" append the attachment.

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