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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[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 21:13:29 -0700
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On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 00:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Programs that know what a footer is might well not do that.

What? I think what you are saying is that programs that know what a
footer that you could turn it off?

If that is what you mean, I would suggest that you are the minority.
Further if you do turn off headers, why do you care?

Joshua D. Drake

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