[Foundation-l] all images on/off function

church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 7 08:28:35 UTC 2011


Hi Phil,

I appreciate your feedback on my posts, although I'm not quite sure what
you're trying to tell me.

> I don't read your posts, because (a) I don't trust attachments anyway, and

I use a digital signature to sign my Emails. That way, people can verify
that the Email on this list are really mine. This is a common practice
that many people exercise, some on this Mailing list (Raymond, DaB.),
many more on other lists.
It's completly secure, and if you don't wan't to verify my digital
signature, just ignore the attachments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

There *have* been instances where Emails with a faked address arrived on
Wikipedia mailing lists (which is something quite easy to do). So it's
not just a theoretical problem :)

> (b) if you have anything worthwhile to say, and are competent at interacting 
> on a mailing list, I see no reason why you should not be able to hit the 
> "reply" button in your mail program, and it actually reaches its target. 

I do. I use Thunderbird/3.1.13. My "in-reply-to" and "references" header
field is set, so you should see my mails just normal in the conversation
tree.
What Email client are you using?

Regards,
Tobias

Ps.: Digital signature disabled in this Email for testing purposes



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