[Enigmail] Expect signature header proposal

[Eitan Adler]

Faramir wrote:
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> John W. Moore III escribió:
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>> Between the disabling of Java Script along with the full integration of
>> other existing Extensions in an attempt to make T-Bird more
>> 'Outlook-like' means that even if successful You will be responsible for
> 
>   Oh... now I am scared... :S
>   I hope TB developers don't break too many things...
> 
>   Now, going back to the topic, I don't want to play the Devil's
> Advocate role, but since I among the users that are still trying to
> learn the uses and meaning of encryption (and signatures, of course), I
> think _maybe_ Eitan Adler is just trying to explain his idea, since
> probably he still think it would be an interesting feature, and if
> people is rejecting it, maybe it is because they have misunderstood what
> he is suggesting.
> 
>   I don't know how much knowledge does Eitan Adler have about enigmail's
> code, or TB code... For "profane" people (I mean, people like me), to
> add a feature is just part of the "magic" developers do, so we don't
> know if there is a big difference between the recipient's rules to
> sign/encrypt messages, and to add a feature about "sender's rules".
> 
I think you hit it on the head.
>   Now, my own point of view about the subject is: if a sender uses to
> sign all his messages, and I receive an unsigned message, or a message
> with broken signature, and the content of the message is important
> enough to ruin somebody's career, I would check the message with the
> sender, just to be sure. An alert icon would be a nice aid to make me to
> remind that policy, *if* such feature is not too complex to implement.
> If it would requite a lot of hard work, or to break some things to
> implement it, then clearly it would be better to put a "post-it" in my
> computer's screen saying: "don't forget important messages must be
> checked before proceeding to do what they say".
> 
>   Best Regards
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