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Re: Dash-escaping and the Usenet sig convention

2000-12-12 05:56:18
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ian Bell wrote:

newsgroups/mailing lists - the problem being that the "-- " gets stuffed
to "- -- " with the result that recipients' clients will no longer

The preferred way to encapsulate OpenPGP messages in mail is by using
MIME as defined in RFC2015.  No need for the old fashioned cleartext
signing.

The question is, how do openPGP clients cope with such messages and what

It is a matter of the MUA to handle this right.  Mutt for example
does remove the dash escaping even when it does not verify the
signature.

  Werner