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Re: [IRR] Problems with Eudora plugin for PGP 6.0.2i

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Fri May 14 11:09:58 1999

From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:51:38 -0500
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
In-Reply-To: <v04003a16b3616b90c22a@[38.232.7.7]>
Cc: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>, cryptography@c2.net,
        irr <tbtf-irregulars@world.std.com>

In <v04003a16b3616b90c22a@[38.232.7.7]>, on 05/14/99 
   at 01:20 AM, Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> said:

>You probably have the preference for "use PGP/MIME by default" turned on.
>Turn it off. MIME security encodings are a crock, as you well know.

Wow!! Did I miss something, I never saw this opinion on the IETF lists. :)

Did you have a change of heart now that you are a free man? :))

IMHO MIME security encoding are not a bad thing, unfortunatly the vast
majority of e-mail programs can not properly process complex MIME encoding
(this is for any type not just security encoding).

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