Re: OT can't read posting.
From: Mike Easter (MikeE_at_ster.invalid)
Date: 11/25/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:15:09 GMT
"Crash" Dummy wrote:
> For some reason, the postings from "andy smart" are not being
> rendered in my news reader (OE 6). The body is blank and there are
> two attachments, "ATT00055.txt" and "signature.asc." The .txt file
> contains the message and the .asc file contains a PGP signature. I
> don't have any form of PGP installed, but I have never had any
> problem reading PGP encoded postings before. Do you have any idea
> what is going on?
The structure of his postings is incompatible with your newsreader.
Your newsreader isn't a particularly 'compliant' one and has its own
proprietary way of doing things.
In some newsgroups, some posters 'bend over backward' to try to help out
those who use such newsreaders as yours, in other newsgroups there is an
antagonism between the users of 'opposing' applications and operating
systems.
Andy's newsreader is T-bird and the structure of his message is
multipart signed.with 3 mime boundary delimitors counting the epilog and
prolog
Prior to the prolog is the information about his message being openpgp
signed and compliant, so you don't see that part because your newsreader
is waiting for the mime prolog.
After the prolog boundary, your newsreader is treating that item as the
attachment text file. That part is containing the attribution and cite
and his response.
The next mime boundary is the attachment for the pgp signature, and
interior to that it has its own begin and end, which would be respected
and interpreted by compliant newsreaders. I'm personally against
'unnecessary' baggagetype pgp signing, but that is a whole different
story.
After that pgp signature, comes the mime epilog, ie the end.
You have a few options. You can express yourself as you have. You
could argue that unnecessary pgp signing clutters up the newsgroup
unnecessarily and provide some citations to support that point of view.
You could get a different newsreader. You could killfile andy so that
his posts won't 'annoy' you. You could do more than one of those or
nothing.
-- Mike Easter
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