Gripe about corrupted signed messages to the list

[Rick Cooper]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Joshua Hirsh
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:19 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: OT: Gripe about corrupted signed messages to the list
>
>
> Hi fellow-list-members,
>
>  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).
>
>  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.
>
>  What this ends up meaning is that it takes more effort to read
> your particular message, and in most cases, I don't even bother
> reading them. (finding enough time to read most of the messages
> on this list is challenging enough!)
>

"Some mail agents" might be Outlook?. It won't display anything in the
preview pane, you have to actually open the message in a new window and tell
it you will accept the message before it can be read. Unless it's a part of
critical thread or the subject is very interesting I delete them off hand
just to get them out of  my way.

If Thunderbird would just integrate a decent calendar, notes, etc I would
dump Outlook in a heart beat. It's hard to describe how annoying it is to
get a bunch of those cert signed messages and you cannot even mark them as
read without dancing through the warnings they have been altered in transit
(and they have). I would think not using a certificate when posting to a
news list that alters ever message sent through it, would be the best... I
just figured I was the only one who was aggravated by that.

Rick


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