OT: Gripe about corrupted signed messages to the list

Mike Zanker mike at ZANKER.ORG
Fri Jun 10 20:27:53 IST 2005


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On 10/6/05 20:19, Joshua Hirsh wrote:

>  I'm sure that I'm not the only person that this annoys, but would it be possible for all of you fine folks who sign your outgoing email with a certificate, to disable it before sending to the list? (If it's been mentioned before, I must have missed it and just ignore me).

Provided you fix your mail client to wrap lines properly :)

>  The problem is that this list adds a signature to all messages, which corrupts your digital signature. Some mail clients like to display warnings about said messages (and rightly so!) saying that they've been altered in transit.

PGP/GPG marks the signed part so that things like this shouldn't happen.

Mike.
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