Re: email signatures

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:32:14AM +1100, Matthew Joyce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer > > > > > to an email, is it '--' befor

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:53:02PM +0100, Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Derrick 'dman' Hudson um 15:46: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:59:24AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > > | > Not when using inline PGP signatures, then it's considered valid. > >

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-28 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 March 2004 12:21 pm, Werner Mahr wrote: > Am Samstag, 27. MÃrz 2004 21:19 schrieb Brad Sims: > > On Saturday 27 March 2004 6:06 am, Werner Mahr wrote: > > > Do I need both lines, or is one for Woody and one for Sarge? > > > > I /think/ one

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-28 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. MÃrz 2004 21:19 schrieb Brad Sims: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 6:06 am, Werner Mahr wrote: > > Do I need both lines, or is one for Woody and one for Sarge? > > I /think/ one is for Woody and one is for Sarge, but as I play with Sid... >

Re: email signatures

2004-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Daniel Teichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And I heard Paul Johnson exclaim: >> "Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Thanks everyone, and for the record I do not intend to actual use it for >> > a disclaimer which I personally find pointless, but our fundraising >> > department want

Re: email signatures

2004-03-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Daniel Teichert: > And I heard Paul Johnson exclaim: > > "Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks everyone, and for the record I do not intend to actual use it for > > > a disclaimer which I personally find pointless, but our fundraising > > > department want to promot

Re: email signatures

2004-03-27 Thread Daniel Teichert
And I heard Paul Johnson exclaim: > "Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks everyone, and for the record I do not intend to actual use it for > > a disclaimer which I personally find pointless, but our fundraising > > department want to promote charity events. > > That's not an impro

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 27 March 2004 6:06 am, Werner Mahr wrote: > Do I need both lines, or is one for Woody and one for Sarge? I /think/ one is for Woody and one is for Sarge, but as I play with Sid... Apt will get the one with the newest version as I understand it -- If Washington fears honest citizens a

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-27 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. MÃrz 2004 02:36 schrieb Brad Sims: > ## OpenGPG plugins ## > deb http://ma2geo.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/public-debian binary/ > deb http://ma2geo.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/public-debian testing/ Do I need both lines, or is one

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Derrick 'dman' Hudson um 15:46: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:59:24AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > | > Not when using inline PGP signatures, then it's considered valid. > | > | OK, sorry for that. But now to something else: I use evolution as mua, > | and I don't

Re: email signatures

2004-03-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 26 March 2004 2:16 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 04.04, Brad Sims wrote: > > Indeed, but Nonbroken email/newsreaders will not quote sigs > > Damn. I guess you win this one :-) No I didn't, it should have been Non-broken NOT Nonbroken (thoug

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Brad Sims
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 March 2004 3:25 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > ... of course, if you want to do signatures or decrypt stuff with > PGP/MIME, it's a little trickier than that to make it work, because you > also need gpg-agent and a pinentry program, whic

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 26 March 2004 1:21 pm, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 12:30, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > What you're seeing is the ASCII armored ('armoured' in the rest of > > the English speaking world outside of the US :) PGP signature. I > > don't know if there's a way to 'teach' evolution

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 26 March 2004 12:30, Alex Malinovich wrote: > What you're seeing is the ASCII armored ('armoured' in the rest of the > English speaking world outside of the US :) PGP signature. I don't > know if there's a way to 'teach' evolution about them, but if there is > I've never found it. If you

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:59:24AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: | > Not when using inline PGP signatures, then it's considered valid. | | OK, sorry for that. But now to something else: I use evolution as mua, | and I don't quite understand what to do with inline PGP signatures. Upgrade them to P

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joerg Johannes (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 04:52: >> Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> Errh, your sig starts with "- -- \n". Bad example. Go fix it. >> >> Not when using inline PGP signatures, then it's considered valid. >

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 03:59, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 04:52: > > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: > > >> For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " > > >

Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 04:52: > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: > >> For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " > >> (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See

Re: email signatures

2004-03-26 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 26 March 2004 04.04, Brad Sims wrote: > On Thursday 25 March 2004 2:45 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > > Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line > > length to use in email. Some even argue 72 so that it stays below 80 > > chars even with

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks everyone, and for the record I do not intend to actual use it for > a disclaimer which I personally find pointless, but our fundraising > department want to promote charity events. That's not an im

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Errh, your sig starts with "- -- \n". Bad example. Go fix it. >> >> Renders fine for me. Mutt 1.4i, Solairs 8 >> >> Must be your MUA. Go fix it :-) > > I think it is because of the GPG signature. When signing a message, the > signature delimiter is

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: >> For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " >> (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See my signature >> for an example. >> >> See also: http://www.new

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 25 March 2004 2:45 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line length to > use in email. Some even argue 72 so that it stays below 80 chars even with 2 > or 3 levels of quoting. > > > cheers > -- vbi > Ind

RE: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Matthew Joyce
> -Original Message- > From: Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 10:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: email signatures > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >>On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Colin
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew Joyce wrote: what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an email, is it '--' before the appendage ? no, it's "-- " (dash-dash-space) Not quote. dash-dash-space-newline No, it's newline-dash-dash-space-newline ;-

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:00:20 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Brian Brazil (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> Must be your MUA. Go fix it :-) > > I think it is because of the GPG signature. When signing a message, the > signature delimiter is changed from "-- \n" to "- -- \n". Probably mutt > is clever

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian Brazil (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:31:17AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: >> Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: >>> For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a >>> "-- " (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by i

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:31:17AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: > > For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " > > (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See my signature > > for an example. > > > >

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2004 10:31 schrieb Joerg Johannes: > Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: > > For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " > > (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: > For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " > (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See my signature > for an example. > > See also: http://www.newbie.org/ > > - -- > .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMA

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 25 March 2004 02.08, Brad Sims wrote: > Signatures are delimited by dash dash space newline ie "-- " > and should be, properly speaking, no more than four lines of > not more than eighty characters per line Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line length to

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an > email, is it '--' before the appendage ? For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " (that is, dash dash spa

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2004-03-25, Matthew Joyce penned: >> >> Hi, >> >> what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an >> email, is it '--' before the appendage ? >> >> thanks >> > > The polite way t

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hoeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew Joyce wrote: > >> what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an >> email, is it '--' before the appendage ? > > no, it's "-- " (dash-dash-space

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Brad Sims
Signatures are delimited by dash dash space newline ie "-- " and should be, properly speaking, no more than four lines of not more than eighty characters per line -- The real fun of living wisely is that you get to feel smug about it -- Hobbes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Martin Hoeller
On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew Joyce wrote: > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an > email, is it '--' before the appendage ? no, it's "-- " (dash-dash-space) -- === Martin Hoeller

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Matthew Joyce penned: > > Hi, > > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an > email, is it '--' before the appendage ? > > thanks > The polite way to do it is not at all. I've yet to see a huge honkin' signature that was actually necessary/productive. The

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:20:11AM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: | Hi, | | what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an | email, is it '--' before the appendage ? The delimiter for signatures is '\n-- \n'. In other words, a blank line followed by two dasshes and a space on a

email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Joyce
Hi, what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an email, is it '--' before the appendage ? thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au