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I agree with Jon on this. Insisting that the world suddenly change
to MIME is not helping the adoption of PGP, in fact, it makes it harder
as people tend to delete these nasty MIME messages. It's even worse with
windows, as the (almost unreadable) "...ems" message looks annoyingly
similar to a (usually unreadable) SMIME message. I too tend to
delete these messages, as they are functionally equivalent to spam.
I think we should be be building systems that INCREASE the usage of
this technology, not decrease it.
I agree it's the MUA's job to handle this civilly, but until that
happens, the cleartext solution is much more likely to be usable in
the real world.
At 08:06 AM 12/12/00 -0800, Jon Callas wrote:
In our last episode ("Re: Dash-escaping and the Usenet sig convention",
shown on 12/12/00), Werner Koch said:
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.
I disagree completely. The correct way to encapsulate messages is with
cleartext. I often delete PGP-MIME messages without reading them because
it's such a pain to deal with them.
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