Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1771C634E27 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:04:14 -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 25133-04 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:04:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B976331F0 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:04:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n2I43n5x002289; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:03:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Alvaro Herrera cc: Bruce Momjian , "Marc G. Fournier" , David Blewett , "pgsql-www@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: List Message Footer In-reply-to: <20090318035432.GR4202@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <200903180210.n2I2AQP09168@momjian.us> <1977.1237347614@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20090318035432.GR4202@alvh.no-ip.org> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:54:32 -0400" Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:03:48 -0400 Message-ID: <2288.1237349028@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.012 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.012 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/129 X-Sequence-Number: 16783 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. regards, tom lane