On Jan 25, 2022, at 18:19:03, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/25/22 3:48 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: >> There is an old standard that a line comprising: >> hyphen hyphen space linend > > My understanding is that the dash dash space is a /convention/ and is not > actually defined anywhere. ...
>> means "start of signature" and well-behaved MUAs clip starting there on >> reply. Outlook doesn't support this > T-Bird supports it. Mac Mail.app, iOS Mail.app, and LISTSERV web interface don't > ... When you introduce HTML (or even RTF), this convention goes out the > window. > The convention goes out the window because the dash dash space is inside of > the HTML body of the message, thus probably harder to recognize > programmatically. > My brutal suggestion is that LISTSERV et al. reject, with notification, any submission containing a recognizable LISTSERV footer, however embedded. I believe I'll try it, if only to infuriate lazy bottom-posters and top-posters. -- gil Моё судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
