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From: Jaime Casanova <[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: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:07:24 -0500
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > 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.
>

Actually, gmails hides footers (instead puts a message to expand the
footer)... is very annoying because sometimes hides usefull
information, but...


-- 
Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
Cel. +59387171157

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