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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.
Cynical
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 4 Apr 2006 at 11:01, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
True - but could I add that if everyone put their message ABOVE the quoted text, rather than below, then this issue would be moot anyway (since we wouldn't need to go through the endless footers in order to get to the message)
Digest-mode readers (such as myself) still have to scroll through all of that excrement in order to get to the next message.
It can also be difficult to follow a list with lots of topics going on at once if there isn't any contextual quoting (carefully trimmed) above the response to remind you of what is being replied to. Reading the context *after* the reply is awkwardly backward.