Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487FC6334A8 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:14:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27194-07 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:13:59 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090996331F0 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:13:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (or-69-34-217-90.sta.embarqhsd.net [69.34.217.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2I4KIx1003824 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:20:19 -0700 Subject: Re: List Message Footer From: "Joshua D. Drake" Reply-To: jd@commandprompt.com To: Tom Lane Cc: Alvaro Herrera , Bruce Momjian , "Marc G. Fournier" , David Blewett , "pgsql-www@postgresql.org" In-Reply-To: <2288.1237349028@sss.pgh.pa.us> References: <200903180210.n2I2AQP09168@momjian.us> <1977.1237347614@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20090318035432.GR4202@alvh.no-ip.org> <2288.1237349028@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:13:29 -0700 Message-Id: <1237349609.28462.21.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:20:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200903/131 X-Sequence-Number: 16785 On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 00:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera 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 -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997