[plug] Installfest 2001 - Announce & Details.

[Andrew Francis]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Bret Busby wrote:
> 3. An unnnamed attachment does not bode well for an email message, in these
> days of viral and worm infested messages. An unnamed attachment, which, while
> the above three lined text gives a description of the type of attachment, that
> is not shown with any attachment type in displaying the message, generally
> inspires people to automatically delete messages. Using kmail, the attachment
> was shown simply with a question mark icon, and, a link with "unnamed"as the
> text on the link. Whilst the attachment may be a pgp signature, it was not
> shown as such, in displaying the email message, thus giving an incentive to
> immediately delete the message as either viral or wornm infested. Something to
> consider, when using things like pgp signatures in email messages.

I saw:
    [ Part 2, Application/PGP-SIGNATURE  240bytes. ]

Seems pretty clear to me.

If someone doesn't know what a PGP-SIGNATURE is, then throwing 
"PGP-SIGNATURE" at Google comes up with some pretty decent answers
fast.

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Andrew Francis
locust at iinet.net.au