Re: [LUG] HTML emails

Hi Brad,

That's a fair and reasonable point.Â

I'm not convinced it's necessary on a quiet, low traffic and fairly non-contentious public list like this, however. DKIM does provide reasonable sending proof (of host if not user) which I would think would be sufficient against most spoofing attempts.Â

I've seen footers used which show where the public key is available, which obviously has a lot less impact than attaching it to every message, and should anyone care to check, can be fetched.

My personal view - perhaps shared by others - not just the vocal ones- is that you simply don't need ~> 1kb extra overhead on a post to DCLUG. Be it HTML or PGP attached public key, or animated gifs of unicorns.Â

Being topical, perhaps a poll would be the most democratic way to resolve this?

x No attachments.

x No HTML.

x Don't Give a monkeys.

If the list operator could confirm they would adjust mailman's settings based on the results, I'd be happy to set one up on google forms.

On 8 June 2017 at 11:22, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:47:58 +0100
Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Simon,

{PGP sigs, etc.}
>This is un-needed to get the value of your words yet adds to everyone's
>bandwidth and storage loads, so is not efficient either.

Noting that you have no strong feelings either way WRT PGP -
It does serve a purpose;Â Identity verification.Â In this day and age,
where identity theft is an ever-present danger, taking steps to avoid
such theft is a Good Thingâ, IMO.

Obviously (I hope), using HTML in email only makes it easier to disguise
malicious intent.

One of the most crass things I've seen is a 50k (or more) image
attachment to show a requester that read "An error has occurred" (or
something equally short), needing fewer than 50 bytes in text to
explain.Â It probably took longer to take the screenshot and attach it
to an email than it would have taken to type in the text.Â Another
stupid thing is the use of a 20k (or more) image for setting a background
colour in HTML mails to grey.

People that do such things make it into my killfile pretty quick.

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