Yes, Chris, we do realize that. However, ASCII attachments defeat the purpose for those of us subscribed in digest mode, as the attachments are all concatenated to the bottom of the e-mail and there is no indication as to which e-mail they refer. So unless one is getting the e-mails individually, it does affect the verification.
--Avi
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:00 AM, wikien-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Chris Howie" cdhowie@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 06:48:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----?
I would agree to some extent. Did you PGP/GPG users out there (I am one, I just don't sign much anymore) realize that a properly-configured client can send the signature as an attachment and not inline? Look at Kwan Ting Chan's message, for example. It looks much cleaner and is just as verifiable.
-- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers