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List:       ms-cryptoapi
Subject:    Re: BitString Encoding (Resending Unsigned)
From:       Samuel James Liddicott <sam () CAMPBELLSCI ! CO ! UK>
Date:       1997-12-18 16:18:29
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From: Steve Pruitt (Beyond Help) <v-stevpr@MICROSOFT.COM>
To: CryptoAPI@LISTSERV.MSN.COM <CryptoAPI@LISTSERV.MSN.COM>
Date: 16 December 1997 13:56
Subject: Re: BitString Encoding (Resending Unsigned)


>The LISTSERV software is designed to be generic and work with all email
>programs. That means it can't use features like MIME that aren't supported
>by all client programs. It has to work that way, because there's no telling
>what program the members of a mailing list might be using. You'd be amazed
>at the variety I've found represented among site developers in these
>Microsoft-sponsored mailing lists.


Right... errr but isn't mime pretty much straight text viewable anyway
(apart from the base 64 stuff, I mean).

You could add the footer, and all these non-mime bods would see is an extra
line of mime-boundry (and the see a lot more than that from the signed
emails!!).

Perhaps thats a better reason not to do it - if you did it as a mime portion
tacked on the end, and siging then worked, more people might sign! And then
what a lot of base 64 the non mime-ers would get!

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