From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 14:51:42 CST
Billy Watt <billy@cjwatt.plus.com> writes:
> I'd be interested to here the prevailing viewpoint on the use of
> pgp/gnupg to sign usenet messages inline in a text only environment
> where MIME isn't appropriate.
Well, my opinion is that there isn't a place on Usenet where MIME isn't
appropriate. Many if not most Usenet messages these days *are* MIME
messages, and the dislike of MIME is based on cargo cult thinking and
horrid implementations rather than on the actual merits of the standard.
Inline signatures are an ugly hack best left in the dust of history in
favor of a true MIME representation of the message structure.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>