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From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: a PGP signed mail? Has to be spam!

onedo@....net wrote:
> 
> Guys(and girls), the situation sucks. What do you think? And, most
> important of all, do you see any way to fight this behaviour? Because
> honestly, I don't.

I fight it by signing all my mails.  When somebody says they can't read
them, they get a canned response I adapted (with permission) from
Karsten Self's longer rant:

If you are reading this, it means that you sent me an email saying that
you can't read my emails.  The short answer to why not is:

Your mailer is broken.  This is your problem, not mine.  File a bug
report with the vendor.  I'm going to continue signing my mail, and if
you don't change your end of things, you're going to continue having
problems reading it.

In some cases (you're cute, my mom, or you're offering sufficient 
reasons per hour), I'll make exceptions, but this is on a case-by-case 
basis, and I'm intentionally leaving it as a PITA manual process so that 
each of us is reminded it's a bad idea:  me, when I do it, you, when I 
forget and you're stuck with unreadable mail from me.  GET A REAL MAILER.

No, this isn't a virus, a bomb, a bug, a worm, or any other executable
code.  And if it is, that's your problem, not mine.

If your IT or MIS department is brain-dead enough to actually strip off
these attachments before you get your mail, I'm going to laugh at you
in public.  Sorry, this ain't the sympathy department.

This rant excerpted from a longer one copyright (c) 2001, Karsten M. Self.
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