Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E12633FF6 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:07:29 -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 36868-05 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:07:19 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853B4633EF7 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:07:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so4891707gxk.19 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:07:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.112.10 with SMTP id p10mr7573047ybm.32.1237597644533; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:07:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090318195511.GL3798@alvh.no-ip.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> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:07:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3073cc9b0903201807p57369c9csc0c7998f4dea0547@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: List Message Footer From: Jaime Casanova To: Alvaro Herrera Cc: Tom Lane , Bruce Momjian , "Marc G. Fournier" , David Blewett , "pgsql-www@postgresql.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/177 X-Sequence-Number: 16831 On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera 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. =A0Turning off footers ("signatures") is > dangerous, because the delimiters are not widespread, so hiding them > risks hiding important data. =A0Actually 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... --=20 Atentamente, Jaime Casanova Soporte y capacitaci=F3n de PostgreSQL Asesor=EDa y desarrollo de sistemas Guayaquil - Ecuador Cel. +59387171157