From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:16:17 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Clueless "Attachment converted" uses
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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, David Sternlight wrote:

> At 6:01 AM -0700 7/15/96, Simon Spero wrote:
> >On a very similar note - could people who are using clear-text PGP
> >signatures with mime use text/... instead of application/...; that way
> >people without pgp will see the message text without having to mess with
> >their mailcaps (that's the way text/* is supposed to work)
> 
> It's kludgy, I agree, but that's the way the example PGP translator for our
> mailer that some of us are using works right now. If someone rewrites that
> part of it, I'm sure we'd all be happy to switch. Dunno if there's an easy
> patch with ResEdit. (It's for the Mac.)

I think Simon was referring to the obsolete draft that defined the content
type "application/pgp".  The multipart/signed content type, IMHO, is hardly
kludgy and is the best way to MIME encapsulate data.  "Application/pgp" is
definitely kludgy.

BTW, those of you who do use PGP/MIME signing software should tweak the
configuration a bit so there isn't an apostrophy in the MIME boundary.  This
makes it very difficult to verify the signature using metamail and possibly
other MIME interpreting programs.

- -- Mark

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