preferred method of sending a signed message.

[J Horacio MG]

El jue, 30 de sep de 1999, a las 08:17:51 -0500, Walter Truitt dijo:
> 
> Please mail me directly because I would not like to start any sort of
> flame war on the list.

a flame war on MUAs?  hope not, there's no reason to flame anyone on any
personal choice.

> As there have been messages about mutt and other MUAs, I was currious
> the preference of format.  I notice that some on the list use the
> clearsign style where the signature is part of the message and others
> use the pgpmime standard where the mail is a multipart/signed.  Should
> one be given preference over the other.

The reason for someone to send clearsigned messages may be twofold:

(a) his/her MUA does not / cannot handle MIME/PGP (mine does!), so he has
to resort to old application/pgp;

(b) his/her MUA does handle MIME/PGP, but he/she thinks others' don't (I
sometimes send clearsigned msgs for this reason).

BTW, my MUA is (proudly) mutt, which handles both pretty well (with a
little help from a friend... ie. procmail).

p.s.  please, send any flaming contents to my personal address ;-)

-- 
Horacio
homega@ciberia.es
Valencia - ESPAŅA