On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 06:19:41AM -0500, Richard Damon wrote: > On 1/30/21 3:28 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: >> Sender signature != ML footer. >> >> So, as Stephen says, the separators used to indicate those two >> distinct kinds of text block should be different. > > The one advantage I can see for using the signature separator is that > many (some?) email programs will automatically trim off the message > after the separator, so it will automatically remove the list footer > from a reply to the list.
Ideally, email clients ((MUAs) would have separate user-configurable options (with sensible defaults) for how to handle signatures and footers. But unless signatures and footers use distinct separators, it would not be practical for MUA developers to implement separate options for signature- and footer-handling. So, using distinct separators for footers compared to signatures still seems to me the right approach. Sam -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you. _______________________________________________ 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
