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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: bastard standards
Date: 18:38 on 04 Sep 2003

http://peter.hates-software.com/2003/09/04/7af43925.html

To be precise:

  --9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
  Content-Disposition: inline
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

  [...]

  --9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf
  Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
  Content-Disposition: inline

  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
  Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD)

  iD8DBQE/V3RlWaB7jFU39ScRApZvAKDIrqZiQ77jDQLSRP95uxU+OnWDzACgwDbW
  mOPNYEdOPtDTXnd+LjrOG84=
  =01u8
  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

  --9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf--

WTF?

It's not that it's PGP-singed, mind you, but that it's also encapsulated
inside a bunch of MIME turds ... but not using the MIME-PGP stuff. So if
you're doing MIME you get to share with the old-PGP stuff, and if you're
not you still have to deal with the MIME turds... which are likely to break
the old-PGP-stuff because it's encoded in quoted-unspeakable.

Let's combine the worst of all worlds.

bastard standards peter (Peter da Silva) 18:38 on 04 Sep 2003

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