On 4/4/06, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps it would be better if there was NO footer at all (rather than stripping out multiple occurences of the footer post-sending). This would solve the display problems you mentioned without screwing PGP signing. Surely the fact that [WikiEN-l] is in the subject line tells someone that the email is from the mailing list, without the need for the footer.
In any case, for me, gmail hides the footer as "quoted text". Perhaps because of the long line above?
I kind of agree with you, but containing the unsubscription link probably saves the mods a lot of administrivia. (Incidentally, I'm still trying to work out why one of my previous messages got filtered out for containing "potential administrivia")
Obwikipedia: Subcategories really, really don't work. Why have we put up with them for so long? I was trying to categorise [[Brownstone]]. First I chose [[Category:building materials]]. Then I realised there was a subcat [[Category:Masonry]]. But why not go the whole hog, [[Category:Stone]]? Because there you end up in a category with 3 other members, none of which were real building materials. I ended up using both Masonry and Stone, violating the rule against using a cat and its subcat together.
Steve