Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Robin Anson
Martin On Thu 23 June 2005, 00:10:09 +1000, you wrote: The only thing I found in the archives was writing a filter that stores the file to disk, opens a text editor and later reimporting the message. 50 times a day? Not me! There has to be a more clever way! It's not the best way, but it

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Robin Anson
Ian On Thu 23 June 2005, 08:52:05 +1000, you wrote: Ensuring e-mails are as the sender sent is is important, and it is only seen when there is a problem. A plain text message is repudiable precisely because it can be edited so easily. Unless both sender and recipient agree the message is as it

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Martin Schuster
Hello Robin, Martin On Thu 23 June 2005, 00:10:09 +1000, you wrote: The only thing I found in the archives was writing a filter that stores the file to disk, opens a text editor and later reimporting the message. 50 times a day? Not me! There has to be a more clever way! It's not the best

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Dwight, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:24:47 -0500 GMT (23/06/2005, 06:24 +0700 GMT), Dwight A Corrin wrote: DAC By this logic, we should get rid of pens, because someday someone DAC might use one to commit a forgery. I cannot imagine that an issue of DAC the foundation of an email is ever going

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Ian, On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:00:41 +1000 GMT (23/06/2005, 07:00 +0700 GMT), Ian A. White wrote: IAW Apparently there are tools that let you do this, however as far as an IAW e-mail program is concerned, it should not. If it does, then there IAW should be some indication that the message has

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Chris
Thomas Fernandez @ 2005-Jun-23 11:28:20 AM Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alas, when I export, edit, and import it, I don't even have that indicator. Why should it not? There is no easy way to tell whether said message has been edited or simply

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Chris, On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:47:41 -0400 GMT (23/06/2005, 22:47 +0700 GMT), Chris wrote: Alas, when I export, edit, and import it, I don't even have that indicator. Why should it not? C There is no easy way to tell whether said message has been edited or C simply imported from a

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Terry G. Munson
Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 23, 2005, 9:35:00 AM, you wrote: Correct. This my very point: I can edit the message externally and then import it. What is the purpose of not allowing me to do it internally? Forgive me if I am missing something here but...can't you copy (or move) a message to

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Terry! On Thursday, June 23, 2005, 12:01 PM, you wrote: Forgive me if I am missing something here but...can't you copy (or move) a message to the outbox and than edit that message? You can. We have had this discussion at least once before on TBUDL--a long time ago--and my memory of this

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Terry G. Munson
Hello Mary, Thursday, June 23, 2005, 10:34:54 AM, you wrote: You can. We have had this discussion at least once before on TBUDL--a long time ago--and my memory of this point is that, while you can do that, when you then put the message in another folder, the time-stamp changes. So what

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Terry! On Thursday, June 23, 2005, 1:54 PM, you wrote: You can. We have had this discussion at least once before on TBUDL--a long time ago--and my memory of this point is that, while you can do that, when you then put the message in another folder, the time-stamp changes. So what

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Terry, On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:54:55 -0700 GMT (24/06/2005, 01:54 +0700 GMT), Terry G. Munson wrote: TGM So what Thomas (and others) want to be able to do is edit a message and have some TGM indicator such as this mail has been edited after arrival but have TGM the time stamp not change.

Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Martin Schuster
Hello tbudl, I searched in the archives, but maybe I just don't know the right english words to ask the right question... ;-) I want to automatically remove those endless disclaimers some companies put in the bottom of every mail. Is there a filter setting or some other clever trick to do this?

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:10:09 AM, Martin Schuster wrote: I want to automatically remove those endless disclaimers some companies put in the bottom of every mail. Is there a filter setting or some other clever trick to do this? There is some moralistic notion among some bat users and

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Martin Schuster
Hello Dwight, I want to automatically remove those endless disclaimers some companies put in the bottom of every mail. Is there a filter setting or some other clever trick to do this? There is some moralistic notion among some bat users and apparently the developers that this would be

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Mark Partous
Hello Martin, Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 4:58:32 PM, you wrote: MS Thought so, thanks for the reply. I just hope this bad habit will someday MS dissappear... OTOH, if you were trying to save the text of the message to a textfile, automatically stripping the disclaimers, that can be done... --

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Dwight, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:50:51 -0500 GMT (22/06/2005, 21:50 +0700 GMT), Dwight A Corrin wrote: DAC There is some moralistic notion among some bat users and apparently DAC the developers that this would be wrong, and so it is not allowed. To DAC tamper with the mail someone sends you

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Ian, On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:52:05 +1000 GMT (23/06/2005, 05:52 +0700 GMT), Ian A. White wrote: IAW If RITLabs want to implement such a feature, then editing a message IAW should see text added to the message indicating the message and/or IAW head contents have been changed. Yes, I agree.

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 5:52:05 PM, Ian A. White wrote: Ensuring e-mails are as the sender sent is is important, and it is only seen when there is a problem. may be important, in some situations I was recently caught up in such a situation recently where a client refused to pay up and

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 5:52:05 PM, Ian A. White wrote: None of this is important until problems arise. I think the thing that is so wrongheaded about this insistence in limiting the possibilities of TB! and making it less functional than other e-mail clients, is that it is always

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 7:00:41 PM, Ian A. White wrote: Yes, ensuring an e-mail is as it was sent is only important in some situations, however those situations are critical when they arise. But that has nothing to do with enabling a user to annotate, condense, edit incoming mail. Should

Re: Removing those endless disclaimers in incoming mails

2005-06-22 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 7:00:41 PM, Ian A. White wrote: Yes, ensuring an e-mail is as it was sent is only important in some situations, however those situations are critical when they arise. Even more apt comparison: we need to ban digital cameras, because someone might change or enhance