So I’m sitting down to my computer to handle a little electronic mail this morning. It’s my usual tradition, and as usual, Elijah (my two-year-old) watched me type, hung off my arm, and did two-year-old things.
He saw the colorful display of my mail reader, “Mutt” (a text-based email reader that is basically immune to viruses, very fast to use, with a steep learning curve), and said “Daddy, what’s that?”
“Well,” I replied, “it’s a program I use to read my electronic mail. It’s called ‘Mutt'”.
Well, whaddya know, the rest of that session before heading off to work, every time he’d see me pop back to that text window with its colorful text, he’d shout “Daddy! Mutt!”
That’s my boy.
MUTT
Is Mutt that crappy software that always sends me your email body as an attachment instead of as a regular readable email? If so, it’s time to put the old dog down.
PGP
Well, it’s not because of Mutt specifically. It’s because I use non-inline PGP. Inline PGP is the old standard (PGP signature at the bottom of the text message), whereas the newer PGP standards specify signed text attachments. I can always turn it off for individual recipients, but I like encryption and digital signatures.
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Matthew P. Barnson
yawn
whatever 🙂