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From: David Fetter <[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: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:18:56 -0700
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:55:11PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
> 
> There are no such programs.  Turning off footers ("signatures") is
> dangerous, because the delimiters are not widespread, so hiding them
> risks hiding important data.  Actually what some programs do is show
> them in a different, less visible color or font, for example; but I
> have never seen one that hides them completely.
> 
> (I think the "tin" usenet reader used to have an option to hide
> signatures.  I never knew a person that turned the option on.  I am
> also unaware of whether tin still exists ...)

Tin still exists, and is maintained as far as I know :)

Cheers,
David.
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