Re: Not just the '39 catalog, but all of 'em.

"William Sommerwerck" wrote ...
Mr. Gravereaux, are you aware that your postings appear as attachments,
rather than text? Though I have no reason not to trust your postings, I
really don't like opening attachments from people I don't know well.

Mr. Gravereaux is posting "signed" messages (which ironically are
supposed to be MORE secure). Alas, appropriate for important
email, but pretentious and useless on Usenet. But some people
would rather poke their RFC thumb in your eye than just post
plain text messages like the rest of us.

Mr. Gravereaux correctly observes that newsreaders should be
displaying the (internally multi-part) message as plain text, but
many (like MS Outlook Express) don't do that. But since no
average people post signed messages to Usenet, it makes no
practical difference to the overwhelming majority of us.

OTOH, the only person I know who might benefit from real
PGP secured message posting would be the Real Bob Morein
to distinguish him from that pathetic poseur in OZ.


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