[plug] Installfest 2001 - Announce & Details.

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Andrew Francis wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> Andrew Francis
> locust at iinet.net.au

Try reading the text that you quoted, especially as to what was displayed by
kmail.

Bret Busby
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