Re: PGP Message Signatures on FAQs

Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Sun, 15 Jan 1995 18:57:13 -0500

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On Jan 13, 11:07, Edward Reid wrote:
} Subject: Re: PGP Message Signatures on FAQs
} Dave Schweisguth <dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu> writes:
} > Personally I find RFC1153 (which is how Tom Fine HTMLifies our FAQs)
}
} Tom Fine does not need full RFC1153 format. A line beginning with "Subject:",
} preceded *or* followed by a blank line, is sufficient for his software to
} recognize a section break. I find this useful because I would rather
} underline than overline my section heading subject lines.

But it isn't sufficient for some newsreaders. GNUs for example.

} Full RFC1153 is useful if you want more than just a Subject line in the
} section headings or expect the document to be fed to other software that does
} require that format. For just human readability and Tom Fine (ok, ok, Tom's
} human too, but his software ain't), the simpler form works well.

Yes, which is why I published the minimal FAQ format FAQ. However, a
non-transparent encapsulation, one which cannot cope with existing
industry-standard formats, isn't terribly useful.

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