Re: Chevrons test
Re: Chevrons test
- Subject: Re: Chevrons test
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:23:11 -0400
I'm with you on this Doug, I'd rather have digital signatures filtered
out. It's fine if the list server uses them to check the message but
digital signatures should be stripped out before sending the messages
to the rest of the list.
- Ken
On Sep 13, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
Suppose I write an AppleScript which munges the text of an e-mail
message doing all of the prime factors stuff in order to create a few
kB of hex-formatted text that can be recreated only if you know a code
that I have decided upon.
Suppose that I append that block of text to the e-mail message using
one of the MIME standard procedures for doing it.
Now suppose that I send that message to an Apple mailing list which
adds a few headers, deletes some others, and adds a few lines at the
bottom before it sends off a modified message to a subscriber.
It's changed even more in digest mode. And how many digital sigs will
get attached to a digest?
How can a subscriber be expected to process a digital signature? There
is no reason to expect that the message has not been modified. It has!
If a digital signature is appropriate for a list it ought to be
prepared by the list software after checking the incoming signature if
one was provided. Actually the list could save keys provided by
posters as a spam prevention technique.
But mark my vote as NOT in favor of anything like that. Excessive
bandwidth heats the earth.
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