Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-12 Thread Dave Page
Josh Berkus wrote: The only additional idea I have is that we ought to simply strip away any e-mail footer over 4 lines from the archives. Not only would this purge the confidentiality footers, it would save us some space in general. The effort it would take to write some code to extract

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Josh Berkus wrote: The only additional idea I have is that we ought to simply strip away any e-mail footer over 4 lines from the archives. Not only would this purge the confidentiality footers, it would save us some space in general. The effort it

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Hammond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/12/07, Tom Lane wrote: A more serious objection is that any automated tool would probably get it wrong sometimes, and strip important text. I vote 'lets not bother' Right. I agree with Josh's idea about mentioning list policies in the

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Hammond wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/12/07, Tom Lane wrote: A more serious objection is that any automated tool would probably get it wrong sometimes, and strip important text. I vote 'lets not bother' Right. I agree with Josh's idea about mentioning

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Hammond wrote: Why? If the legal mumbo-jumbo has already got some precedence as being un-enforcable (even if it's only in a handful of jurisdictions), why give it even a patina of credibility by addressing it in a policy? It is always a good