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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: List Message Footer
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:11:08 -0700
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On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 23:54 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > Same here.  The information is already provided; we don't need to
> > duplicate it in the footer.  I'm not impressed by the argument that
> > some folks' mail programs won't dig it out of the headers --- I think
> > it's about as likely that they won't dig a URL out of a standard footer
> > either.
> 
> The obvious difference is that headers are normally hidden as
> uninteresting metadata, whereas footers are shown as normal body text.

Right. Which makes it immediately available and immediately usable.
Message headers are not usable in any form right now. Right now they are
"just a key". I am proposing making that key useful. We already have the
infrastructure from the commit fest pages to the archives. By having it
in the body of the message removes a step in reviewing complete threads.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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