signature.asc files

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-04-27 15:08, David Collantes whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> On 4/27/2004 4:00 PM, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:
>
>> I had no intent to turn this into a heavy discussion but the 70 plus 
>> signature.asc files I have to remove from my system daily are 
>> becoming a pain.  Why oh why do we need sigs on a mailing list??
>
>
> There is no need. But as it is already proven, people will continue 
> signing mailing lists messages. No point to getting all upset about 
> it, it will not change a thing.
>
>> - find a Windows client that meets the so called needs of the RFC 
>> which is not a mandated standard at the best of times and then train 
>> my wife on the new client before having to retrain her when I 
>> eventually move to Linux - do the gurus, particularly those who say I 
>> must scrap Eudora, know of a suitable freeware client which is 
>> supported by Windows 98?
>
>
> Thunderbird[1] would do. Eudora is the mother of stupidity (among 
> others) when it detaches attachments and place them on an 'Attach' 
> folder that never gets cleaned. Believe me, I know, we suffered too 
> long with the Eudora users on my College.
>
> [1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
>
> Cheers,
>
I couldn't agree with you more that, considering the content, there in 
no obvious need to sign mail to a list like this, *except* for purposes 
other than the content.  I was trying to make the point in my previous 
post that the reason I do it is to establish a pattern of *always* 
signing any email I send, for the two purposes which I outlined. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. (Albert Einstein, 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946)

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