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Re: a PGP signed mail? Has to be spam!
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:32:54 -0500
onedo () gmx net wrote:
Guys(and girls), the situation sucks. What do you think? And, most important of all, do you see any way to fight this behaviour? Because honestly, I don't.
I fight it by signing all my mails. When somebody says they can't read them, they get a canned response I adapted (with permission) from Karsten Self's longer rant: If you are reading this, it means that you sent me an email saying that you can't read my emails. The short answer to why not is: Your mailer is broken. This is your problem, not mine. File a bug report with the vendor. I'm going to continue signing my mail, and if you don't change your end of things, you're going to continue having problems reading it.In some cases (you're cute, my mom, or you're offering sufficient reasons per hour), I'll make exceptions, but this is on a case-by-case basis, and I'm intentionally leaving it as a PITA manual process so that each of us is reminded it's a bad idea: me, when I do it, you, when I forget and you're stuck with unreadable mail from me. GET A REAL MAILER.
No, this isn't a virus, a bomb, a bug, a worm, or any other executable code. And if it is, that's your problem, not mine. If your IT or MIS department is brain-dead enough to actually strip off these attachments before you get your mail, I'm going to laugh at you in public. Sorry, this ain't the sympathy department. This rant excerpted from a longer one copyright (c) 2001, Karsten M. Self.
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- Re: a PGP signed mail? Has to be spam! Chris Ruvolo (Nov 12)
- Re: PGP signed mail? Has to be spam! onedo (Nov 12)
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