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[Tim Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I am very happy to see the interest building in OSHIP and openEHR.

One thing that is an issue though is what email client you are using.  I
digitally sign all of my emails.  They are not encrypted but are wrapped
in a GPG envelope.

Every email client works according to the RFC specs on this issue EXCEPT
the free ones from Microsoft.  That is outlook Express and (I think) the
new one is called Microsoft Mail or something like that.  

When I sign my emails (which I think everyone should be doing, but that
is another issue), those non-compliant clients get my emails as an
attachment UNLESS I include and attachment.  Then it seems to work fine.
So most of the time (when I remember; I add a silly little graphic.
Attached here; that explains the issue.  But even then that doesn't work
because corporate and university mail servers seem to think that
digitally signed mails are malware and they discard them, sometimes
without even notifying you.

I am sending this one email, unsigned, so that you will know of the
issues.  

OSHIP members can just about be guaranteed to hear from me at least once
per day except for certain periods and I will announce those ahead of
time (unless I do not see the bus coming and step out into the street).
In that case Roger Erens and/or Sergio Miranda Freire will step in to
guide OSHIP.

If you are using one of those MS free clients, then I recommend that you
switch to Thunderbird if at all possible.  I do realize that this isn't
always under your control though.  So if we have members that MUST use
those non-standard clients, please let me know and I will try to
remember to put the attachment on my emails.  If I forget; you can
usually read my email by selecting what appears to be an attachment.

Cheers,
Tim




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