* On 2025 20 Jul 12:08 -0500, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > > Sorry, I meant digital signatures. Mailing list messing with the body > > means that the signature is no longer valid. > > Strange, I have in my archives mails from that mailing-list that are > digitally signed, where a footer with unsubscribe instructions was > added, and mutt still tells me “gpg: Good signature from”. One from > today
I see the broken signatures on all the messages returned to me from groups.io. Then again, these are all amateur radio related groups and it seems that radio amateurs that are mailing list admins have a visceral hatred for digitally signed mail. YMMV > It is a pattern that I have observed with the authors of some Libre mail > software: they tell you that they will never implement X because it is > not possible without breaking Y but if you dig on these statements you > realize that Y was broken by X only in a stupid implementation from the > 1990s and all other Libre software have been doing X without breaking Y > for decades. There has been software that was declared unmaintainable and later picked up by others and moved forward. As I recall XMMS became Beep Media Player which then became Audacious as others moved the software forward. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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