Free Software for m$

[Tom Achtenberg]

I disagree here.  Signing is meaningless to most people.  It is simply a
waste of time except maybe in rare commercial situations.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Mandala" <davidm@them.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: Free Software for m$


I would disagree with you on the "Rarely, if ever, needed." comment, I
go to the other extreme, "Always needed, rarely used by the clueless".
There is no reason not to sign your email and many reasons it is good
to.

Because many people on this list use broken email clients I don't sign
mail on this list, but I do sign mail most everywhere else. It's my
email, I don't want anyone changing it and then be able to say I said it
a different way.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 06:56, William Lindley wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2002, David Mandala wrote:
> > That is because he is signing them. That is the correct way a signed
> > email should look.
>
> [soapbox]
>
> Signing???  What's up with that.
>
> At any rate, it breaks any hope of searching archived emails, because
> obviously a Find function doesn't search attachments.
>
> It also makes reading email with Pine, or Outlook 97 for that matter, a
> real bother.
>
> Seems right up there with HTML-ized email for "Rarely, if ever, needed."
>
> [dismount soapbox]
>
> Ahh, the curse of the Installed Base.
>
> \\/
>
>
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