[plug] Installfest 2001 - Announce & Details.

[James Bromberger]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:18:48AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, James Bromberger wrote:

<deleted 100 lines of quoted content - are you with AOL?>

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> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="unnamed"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Description: 
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> 
> Three things about the above:
> 
> 1. A bit more notice, on a notice like the above (like at least two weeks),
> would have been good, so as to be able to circulate the notice, with people (the
> public) having adequate notice of the event.


Yes, more notice would have been much better. I believe that Tony has 
been very busy; I have helped him; perhaps you could help too. 

> 2. An explanation, in the notice, of what Linux actually is (a computer game? a
> peripheral device? a computer system?), for the uninformed public, would have
> been good.


See the FAQ.


> 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.

Hmm. This is a pretty standard GPG signed message. I won't sign this one 
so you can read it. What mail reader are you using? I have the latest 
mutt, with the latest GPG. Its the Debian package, so I would say the 
encoding is reasonably well tested. Perhaps you could file a bug 
at http://bugs.debian.org/mutt, if you think it is wrong.

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 James Bromberger <james_AT_rcpt.to> www.james.rcpt.to

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