[49744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Thompson)
Tue Jul 9 18:58:22 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:57:02 -0700
From: Bill Thompson <Billt@Mahagonny.com>
To: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <022b01c22798$2470f510$8201a8c0@nipsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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"John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net> wrote:
>
> I know this is off the current subject., but some of you are sending
> these e-mail's to the list that appear as attachments and not text.
>
> This is even more annoying than HTML Mail.
>
> The message appears with an empty body and attachments that have
> names that start with ATT....
>
> This is annoying. Many people wont read your messages because
> opening attachments is a security risk. If you want your postings
> read, please use plain text e-mail and not these stupid ATT
> attachments.
>
> (flame off)
>
<FLAME ON!>
That would be annoying if it were true.
What you are seeing is PGP/MIME, a standards based protocol for sending
secure and authenticated messages. For some reason, you are using a
non-standards compliant mail program with known security risks that can
not recognize PGP/MIME as a valid MIME type. This could be why you are so
concerned with opening attachments.
Please filter all messages with the words PGP, Secure, and/or NANOG to
prevent this misunderstanding in the future.
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