On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, David <d...@fiteyes.com> wrote: > I'm not sure what you call the long tail of footers that accumulates on > messages,
Collateral damage from MUAs That Only A Professional Programmer Who Hates His Job (And His Users) Could Love[tm]. Because of the potential for damaging author's content, this really should be handled by the author's MUA, but the only ones I know of that do are based on Emacs, which sort of rules out usage by all but a miniscule fraction of the user population. > but I would like to eliminate all prior footers (from the same list). As Mark points out, this is hard to do well, and impossible to do right (where we define "right" to mean "cannot possibly damage the author's intended content"). However, the code he suggests should do very well (up to 100% for lists where top-posting is the rule, at least if you're able and willing to look at any posts where it doesn't work and tweak the regexps a bit). If users are really bothered by it, Gmail does a very good job of eliding quoted content, including footers. (A user has to be pretty bothered to even think about changing his MUA, of course. But it's possible some are looking for alternatives anyway.) > I would think this is a common request, but I can't find any > mention of it anywhere. Does this actually bother your users? IME lists where this is a problem, it's a much smaller problem than top-posting itself, and the users aren't going to notice because they don't read any of the included content anyway. I suspect that's why nobody (that I can remember) has ever asked for this before. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
