Signing attempt

Shawn Rutledge plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:35:12 -0700


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I don't think it's any sort of conspiracy to flaut the standards in this
case; they were just sloppy, or left out a feature that they figured
ought to be a reason to upgrade, or something like that.

It's ironic that OE probably displays HTML "attachments" or RTF
"attachments" correctly (doesn't it?) but doesn't display signed
text attachments.

'Course, mutt has the opposite condition... handles these signed
emails wonderfullly but I have to hit a few extra keys to view HTML.
They ought to just display the output of w3m -dump perhaps, instead
of requiring me to open the attachment in w3m explicitly.

Anyway nothing to get your panties in a knot about, just pick a better
email client.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:46:56AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
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> I think that you missed the point. When you claim that the messages are
> empty, you are complaining about a symptom that very few people on this
> message board can agree with...only the ones that use the Microsoft
> Outlook Express. Even Outlook 2000 sees these messages properly (I
> checked). While you make an unfounded statement that 90% of the world
> uses Outlook Express and therefore, it is the standard - that clearly
> doesn't apply to this message base.=20
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> There are in fact standards and Microsoft didn't create them and chooses
> to follow them or not follow them and in fact handles them differently
> depending upon whether you are using their throwaway mail client (OE) or
> their revenue mail client (Outlook). I believe the argument used by the
> Attorney General's office was that they 'embrace, extend, extinguish' as
> they have done with Internet Explorer and are trying to do with their
> own proprietary email formats.=20
>=20
> Craig=20
>=20
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 22:43, Tom Achtenberg wrote:=20
> > but it came through as a blank message with two attachments.

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