Jym, Wouldn't mind seeing your filtering code.
Two things I've found: <hr> - I think Yahoo uses this html tag to end the mail and being their ad <x-sigsep> - Eudora is nice enough to markup the sig this way (not usually an ad, but useful nonetheless). --ECC On 6/4/05, Jym Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there any standard way to tell Mhonarc to strip the > >> signature / tagline / adline (for free email providers)? > >> In plaintext, they are often deliniated by multiple dashes > >> and a newline. > > =v= The RFC standard is "-- \n", which Earl's code addresses, > but not many people seem to use it these days. > > >> I think they are delineated in html by a tag - but I'm > >> not sure. > > =v= Generally not, since people appending ads to messages > aren't interested in making it easy to detect them. I've > found that they tweak the format now and then, seemingly > at random. If you search for ASCII lines, make sure you've > found the *last* such line in the message, since the message > author might be doing something with lines as well. > > =v= Topica is the worst of the email list services in this > regard; they append *and* prepend ads, and they jiggle the > format around from time to time. I've got a Perl filter to > get rid of this junk, but I find I have to change it from > time to time. > > =v= Stuff from Hotmail usually has a one-liner appended to > it, and it almost always has an apostrophe. Actually, what > it almost always has is a "Windows 1252" charset "smart > single quote", often turning an ASCII message into one with > exactly one 8bit character. (This isn't always apparent from > the headers, which say "text/plain".) > <_Jym_> > >