[Volunteers] Re: Footers (was Re: [Techtalk] "I need to use Windows because ...")

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Mon Aug 12 19:58:32 EST 2002


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002, Claudine Chionh wrote:
> I thought that, while some mail clients will remove the signature when
> replying to a message, all clients will still display the signature
> when you're reading a message, so the mailing list information is
> still at the bottom (assuming people read all the way to the bottom of
> the message).  Am I missing something else?

I think on some mail clients it is possible to turn it off entirely.
Since you can write a customer pager for some of them you could force
this to happen anyway.

I pipe my mails through a SED script to turn Mailman's
"_______________________________________________" line into "-- "
anyway.

-Mary.



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