FEDORA net etiquette

[Joachim Backes]

Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:56:14PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Joachim Backes wrote:
>>> Until tomorrow, I always sent signed emails to the FEDORA mailing list,
>>> where the signature was issued by the PKI of my computer center
>>> (german university). But some fedora list people told me that even
>>> very small emails always have a size of at least 8 kilobyte.
>>>
>>> Therefore i switched to unsigned emails.
>>>
>>> My question: are there rules for the fedora email traffic saying: do
>>> not use signatures?
>> No...there isn't. 
>>
>> But, people get bent out of shape because they view html emails as
>> bandwidth wasters.  So, by the same token they will (should) view signed
>> emails as bandwidth wasters and will equally get bent out of shape.
>>
> 
> I've read (probably in connection with TIN news postings) that sigs
> should have no more than 3 lines after the ---.
> 

I don't mean ascii signature lines, but emails which have been digitally 
signed by the mail client, for example thunderbird: there in the 
composer window, you can say: "security->digitally sign this message" 
before sending it (produces a big attachment containing the digital 
signature). This is what i meant.

Regards

-- 

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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