On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:40:42PM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Tony, > > Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> wrote: > > What is the benefit of such a signature? > > Those who know him now can verify the signature. In addition, if at > any later stage someone else claims to have posted this message, the > OP can prove that it was indeed him who posted it. Everybody else > interested in either the OP or the message can also verify the > signature (though that might require some work to, for example, meet > the OP personally). > > However, you are absolutely free to ignore the signature if it is of > no value to you and most clients will even hide it by default (or > show a small button). There is, however, no way to avoid excessive > quoting, which can easily exceed the size of a signature. > > Best regards, > > Claudius > -- > Patageometry, n.: > The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant > under brain transplants. > http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242
Actually, depending on the editor one uses to compose email, there are ways to avoid quoting the hideous block of text. In vim, for instance, just put this in your .vimrc: map ,kqs :/^[ ]*> -- *$/;?^[ >][ >]*$?;.,/^[ ]*$/-1d<CR> There also also ways to do this in emacs, jed, etc, but I don't know them as I just use vim. -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120510173242.GA25617@radhesyama
