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Re: "Yes, I can handle PGP/MIME"



On Friday 16 April 2004 17.09, you wrote:
> Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> >>Why can't you invent a convention that adjusts the
> >>userid to include an OpenPGP/MIME hint?
> >
> > Ugh. And then I'm forced to change the userid when I change my
> > mailer, and lose all signatures on the userid that I've collected
> > so far? I think embedding this info in the selfsig is the way to
> > go[...] 

> Well, right.  All that above has to be balanced
> against the fact that email is a user application,
> and it's not good to pollute OpenPGP with special
> hacks and bits. 

Yep, fully agree. Perhaps you've not read my first mail in this thread: 
I feel this bit to be unnecessary, IMHO notation data was invented 
exactly for cases like this.

cheers
-- vbi

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