Re: [LI] [Adminstrativa] Additional policies in place for the LI

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 1. Use an ASCII armor (--- Begin PGP -- etc) 2. Use PGP/MIME (RFC
> 2015) (2) is technically a better option because it allows you to
> forward PGP signed emails, and sign mails with attachments. 

The best is to use ASCII armor and keep the pgp sig within the mail 
(it will come under your regular .sig - like this).  On mailing lists at 
least.

This is because, on the Linux India digest (or any other majordomo 
digest) - all attachments (text files / word docs / s-mime like the 
PGP keys ..) are automatically displayed in BASE64 encoded format 
as ASCII (that is, as useless junk characters).

In fact, I'm member of several lists where attachments are streng 
verboten - there is a blanket ban on them.  There are also some 
lists where your .sig MUST stay within 200 chars after a "--" on one 
line - or the post is bounced.  Some guys are creative enough to do 
wonders with that limited .sig

And yes - unless your org / personal situation requires you to use 
PGP sigs on every mail you send out (CAUCE has this policy) I'd 
recommend NOT using PGP keys - at least posting on a list.

This just implies that you don't trust someone out here, and that 
someone is any day going to post a forged message in your name 
to the list (this is known as a Joe Job)

We at CAUCE are regular targets of joe jobs - thanks to spammers 
we keep disconnecting.  The last Indian spammer I got rid of was a 
Delhi based "web promotion" outfit called hitsgenerator.Com - 
hosted by a Delhi based web dev Web Werks India 
http:/www.wwindia.com .  

I had to escalate my LART (complaint) all the way to their backbone 
provider (UUNet) for that one - these guys had leased space from 
some small garageroom ISP in the States, who proved rather 
uncooperative.  Anyway, hitsgenerator.com is toast.

- ---s



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Suresh Ramasubramanian, CAUCE India
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