Dragaera

[dragaera] Mathew Hunter

Mon Jun 10 10:38:12 PDT 2002

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:30:58PM -0400, Scott Ingram <singram at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Dunno what mail client Mathew is using, but the body of his emails always
> arrives at an attached .txt document and his PHP signature as an attached
> .dat document.

Mutt with GPG.

The behavior you are describing is a bug in a common Microsoft
mail client.  The more recent versions display signed emails
correctly.  I really should collect a URL with an explanation 
and instructions on how to fix the problem.

> It's not a virus... it's just his wacky opensource security stuff.  :)
> I can't blame Adam for being wary of email attachments from 'strangers'
> however.

Being wary of attachments from strangers is one thing; having
mail software that replaces valid messages with "virus" is, well, 
a couple steps beyond that.

-- 
Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)