[Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

2015-08-27 Thread Billy Crook
I've noticed that as people reply to threads on my mailman instance, I see copies of the footer pile up at the bottom of each message. Rants about top/inline/bottom posting aside, I thought it would be a smart feature of mailman to look for a copy of the footer in any incoming message before addin

[Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

2015-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Billy Crook writes: > Am I just missing where this setting is, or has this not been > thought of yet. It's been thought of, and it's just plain hard to do, because automatically editing mail bodies robustly is just plain hard to do. If you have a vast majority of users who use the same MUA, yo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

2015-08-27 Thread Seun Ojedeji
Hi, I think it will be a good feature to have. Thinking about it's implementation however assumes that every mail clients uses the thread view mail option. Also those who subscribe in the middle of a conversion will most likely not get the footer. Nerveless it's good to have it for use according

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

2015-08-27 Thread Billy Crook
Where the current behavior is 'always append footer'. I think these options are worth implementing: 'Append footer for just the first message' 'Append footer if footer not already present in quoted text' On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Seun Ojedeji wrote: > Hi, > > I think it will be a good fea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

2015-08-27 Thread Laura Creighton
You may be interested in this thread: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-April/073181.html Laura -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

2015-08-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 08/27/2015 11:23 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: > You may be interested in this thread: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-April/073181.html Thank you Laura. Also note that if sending users add a standard signature (prefixed with a '-- ' line), and repliers use an MUA that doe