Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86ED863466B for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:19:01 -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 64023-02 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:18:50 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from fetter.org (start.fetter.org [66.92.188.65]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBC76344BB for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:18:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: by fetter.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4A39BFBC84C; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:18:56 -0700 From: David Fetter To: Alvaro Herrera Cc: Tom Lane , Bruce Momjian , "Marc G. Fournier" , David Blewett , "pgsql-www@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: List Message Footer Message-ID: <20090319021856.GA5539@fetter.org> References: <200903180210.n2I2AQP09168@momjian.us> <1977.1237347614@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20090318035432.GR4202@alvh.no-ip.org> <2288.1237349028@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20090318195511.GL3798@alvh.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090318195511.GL3798@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.057 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=1.057 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200903/149 X-Sequence-Number: 16803 On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:55:11PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > 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. > > 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. -- David Fetter http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate