On 1/29/21 12:14 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Hi, > > my footer removal software fails on IETF's "last-call" mailing list > because it looks for a line of underscores, whereas that list uses "-- > ". That sequence is "the separator line between the body and the > signature of a message", according to RFC 3676. However, I had never > seen it in mailing list footers before. > > My experience with mailing lists is limited, so I ask you. Is that > sequence common enough to try and catch it in a footer removal function?
Probably yes. > I asked the list owners, and they answered "We didn't choose these > settings when the list was set up! It was probably just the default for > that version of Mailman." Is that possible? According to <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call> that list is on Mailman 2.1.29. The default message footer separator was changed from "_______________________________________________" to "-- " as of Mailman 2.1.24 -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
