Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:54:32 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>,
	David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>,
	"pgsql-www@postgresql.org" <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: List Message Footer
Message-ID: <20090318035432.GR4202@alvh.no-ip.org>
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	<1977.1237347614@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> But, the question is: why?  and not just to you, but Tom/Magnus/Alvarre 
> >> ... I'm not advocating for, I'm just curious why ppl are against ...
> 
> > Yea, I should have stated that.  I think the footer is full enough and I
> > just don't see enough demand for URL lookups to warrant it.
> 
> 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.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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