FEDORA net etiquette

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 28 14:08:41 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:56:14PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Joachim Backes wrote:
> > Until tomorrow, I always sent signed emails to the FEDORA mailing list,
> > where the signature was issued by the PKI of my computer center
> > (german university). But some fedora list people told me that even
> > very small emails always have a size of at least 8 kilobyte.
> >
> > Therefore i switched to unsigned emails.
> >
> > My question: are there rules for the fedora email traffic saying: do
> > not use signatures?
> No...there isn't. 
> 
> But, people get bent out of shape because they view html emails as
> bandwidth wasters.  So, by the same token they will (should) view signed
> emails as bandwidth wasters and will equally get bent out of shape.
> 

I've read (probably in connection with TIN news postings) that sigs
should have no more than 3 lines after the ---.




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