On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:16:01 +0100, Steve Bennett wiki@stevage.com wrote:
Could *somebody* program the mailing list software used by this list to reject messages that quote back the list footers, as done *four* times in a row above? That might put a stop to the
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Wouldn't a better suggestion be, if someone is actually going to reprogram the list server, to simply trim off all quoted footers? Computers were designed to do our monotonous work for us, after all.
Why not just "escape" it with a sig marker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block#E-mail_and_Usenet? I mean add "hyphen hyphen space newline". Any standards compliant mail sofrware will automaticaly strip anything following such a sig marker when replying. Some clueless mail software (like Outlook) would still cause problems, but still...