On Nov 14, 2007 9:45 AM, Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 13, 2007 12:13 PM, Randal L. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So, you have a one line question, and 15 lines of disclaimer, which is not > > even legally enforcable? That's really pretty inexcusable to thrust on a > > mailing list. Did I mention it's pointless, and unenforcable? > > > > Please don't post here from that account. Get a free account somewhere. > > Keep your sig and boilerplate to 4 lines or less. > > > > Thank you for helping keep the internet a sane place. > > > > Is there any way majordomo could be set up to automatically strip > inexcusably long sigs (creating regex do define a sig, and creating a > working definition of "inexcusably long"--it seem like netiquette used > to require 8 lines or less, no?--could be profitable threads for this > group). > > The problem with the free account suggestion is that it's not as > feasible as it used to be. Any employer that requires employees to > shove all that unenforceable nonsense at the bottom of every > email--and possibly just adds it at the server without the employees' > consent--probably doesn't trust its employees, either, and most likely > doesn't allow them to read gmail at work. > > While I certainly share your annoyance, I don't think we should punish > people for their employers' sins. snip
The problem is that there is no way to correctly guess where the content ends and the sig begins (damn unstructured text). A better solution is to warn people (like Schwartz did) and then killfile them if they don't comply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
