peter hates software: bastard standards

• From: peter (Peter da Silva)
  Date: 18:38 on 04 Sep 2003
  Subject: bastard standards
  
  http://peter.hates-software.com/2003/09/04/7af43925.html
  
  To be precise:
  
    --9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Disposition: inline
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
  
    [...]
  
    --9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf
    Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
    Content-Disposition: inline
  
    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
    Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD)
  
    iD8DBQE/V3RlWaB7jFU39ScRApZvAKDIrqZiQ77jDQLSRP95uxU+OnWDzACgwDbW
    mOPNYEdOPtDTXnd+LjrOG84=
    =01u8
    -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
  
    --9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf--
  
  WTF?
  
  It's not that it's PGP-singed, mind you, but that it's also encapsulated
  inside a bunch of MIME turds ... but not using the MIME-PGP stuff. So if
  you're doing MIME you get to share with the old-PGP stuff, and if you're
  not you still have to deal with the MIME turds... which are likely to break
  the old-PGP-stuff because it's encoded in quoted-unspeakable.
  
  Let's combine the worst of all worlds.
  
  
  

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