[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Prohibiting Attachments on ARIN Mailing Lists

[Brian Jones]

See inline comments.

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Brian

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 24, 2018, at 08:35 , Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:56:06AM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 08:21:36AM -0400, ARIN wrote:
> >>>> * Question:  Should attachments be prohibited on ARIN public
> >>>> mailing lists?
> >>>
> >>> I do not have a particular opinion on that, but *if* you disallow
> attachments,
> >>> please make it smart enough to not break PGP-signed mails in MIME
> format
> >>> (which come with an "attachment" for the signature) in the process.
> >>
> >> Hi Gert,
> >>
> >> "Not break" as in maintain the signature or "not break" as in don't
> >> strip the signature and then keep the multipart/signed content-type
> >> breaking the validator?
> >
> > "do not fumble with mail that is PGP signed", not in any way.
> >
> > Do not modify the body, those header parts that are covered by the
> > signature, or the signature itself, or the MIME structure tieing parts
> > together.
>
> What you are effectively arguing for here is “Allow attachments as long
> as the message at least pretends to be PGP signed.”
>
> If we’re going to block attachments, then we should do so.
>

​+1​



>
> If not, then I’m fine with that.
>

​+1 ​


> However, in deference to the PGP signed aficionados, I would suggest that
> we pass (unaltered) any PGP signed message which contains only text/plain,
> text/ascii, text/rtf, and PGP-related MIME parts. For others, we should
> return an error message to the poster explaining that attachments are not
> allowed, but PGP signatures are still permitted.
>
> Owen
>

​Does discussion conducted on ARIN public lists need to be PGP signed?​



>
> >
> >> Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing all emails squashed to a single
> >> MIME text/plain part. It might even improve the quoting mess where a
> >> lot of mail software can't figure out how to mark the components of
> >> the mail or sometimes indents an entire paragraph unwrapped instead of
> >> indenting the lines.
> >
> > I would totally second *that* :-) - but I'm afraid that was not the
> > question asked.
> >
> > Gert Doering
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