From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 95 15:46:06 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: "Attachments"
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Tim May the Luddite ;) writes:
[in response to Michael Shields' application/pgp message]
> Why do people keep sending "attachments"?
> 
> This was just a text article, and not an application (program), so why was
> it included as an "attachment"?

It's useful for those of us with MIME-enabled mailers, appropriately
configured -- PGP is automatically launched to check the signature.

It's not useful for others on the list, AFAIK.

Pretty please, let's not have another MIME war; I think we drove Amanda
Walker away permanently with the last one.

Followups directed somewhere other than cypherpunks@toad.com.

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>