RE: [Asrg] Introduction and another idea

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, "Bob Wyman" <bob@wyman.us> wrote:
>Gordon Peterson wrote:
>> But there is NO point in someone sending unannounced 
>> attachments to someone who may not be prepared to 
>> deal with them

>	Given that a signature is an attachment, are you suggesting that
>I shouldn't be able to sign outgoing mail unless I have made previous
>arrangments with all recipients who might receive such signed messages?

Yes, I think that there is NO point in sending "attachment signatures" 
unsolicited, to people who maybe don't have software capable of dealing with 
those attachments and authenticating them.  

>If such a rule were widely held, then the otherwise useful practice of
>signing mail messages is likely to never be accepted!

It's not "useful" to recipients who have no way of dealing with those 
attachments.   And those are the folks who you're saying should find them, 
unwanted, in their E-mail inboxes just because the sender has this geeky feeling 
that they're somehow "cool".

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