On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:29:42AM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
| On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 04:04, dman wrote:
|
| > Could be. I notice too that your gpg signature is stripped out.
| > Maybe the stripping program doesn't know the difference between HTML
| > messages and other not plain-text-only-no-attachments-whatsoever
| > messages.
|
| The stripper mandates messages to be single part text/plain - all
| attachments are stripped, the best alternative text/plain is taken, if
| there is no text/plain (ie html only) then an attempt is made to convert
| to text.
|
| The archiver does not handle MIME, so attachments tend to really louse
| the archives.
| When this is fixed we could allow some attachments
| through, although I'm not generally keen on attachments in a mailing
| list.
Attachments can be abused, for sure, but sometimes it is a good thing.
GPG/PGP signatures are one situation where regular use of attachments
is acceptable, IMO.
-D
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