From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200103122302.f2CN2GL00700@webber.adilger.int> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] RE: emails In-Reply-To: <20010312162713.A10492@omnifarious.mn.org> from "Eric M. Hopper" at "Mar 12, 2001 04:27:13 pm" Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:02:16 -0700 (MST) Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Eric Hopper writes: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:53:03AM +1300, Jones, Steven wrote: > > note someone just sent me a "secure" email via this group such that i > > had to click on it to open it, I binned it immediately. > > > > I would appreciate it if all posts are plain text, I cannot fathom why > > any more is needed. > > If you mailer can't properly represent the SMIME standard, > that's your problem. I would suggest you find another one. It's a well > published spec, and email really does need to be more secure. > Cryptographically signing every message is an excellent way to help > accomplish this. > > If you throw away every signed message, you'll be missing about > 10% of the content of this list, and some of the better and more > informative posts. Most notably, all of AJ Lewis's messages are signed. I don't have problems with AJ's emails (or any other PGP signed messages for that matter), even though I currently don't actually do PGP myself. However, the post in question just appeared as empty in my mailer (elm). The entire body was in an attachment "smime.p7m" which I had to save to disk to look at. For that matter, it was poorly sent (IMHO) twice as an uncompressed 25k line email. Luckily I have a fast net connection. I'm also not about to get a new email program... Maybe we should put a size cap on emails sent to linux-lvm? This will encourage people to use bugzilla. Also, most of the large patches go to lvm-devel (mine at least). If possible, the "rejection" email for large emails should mention the bugzilla web page URL for convenience. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert