On Wednesday 06 May 2009, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: >HOWEVER, less than two years ago, on this list, we had examples of >people not receiving the message footer parts. In fact I recall >receiving posts from _some_ posters (who posted only to the list, not to >individual members) where the incoming message did not contain the >unsubscribe administrivia at the bottom. I forget what was the source >of that situation, but it might be relevant to some of the people having >trouble.
Such examples are endemic Kevin. So lets take a poll here. How many receivers of this list can see a quote by sci-fi author Ed Howdershelt at the bottom of this message? if you can, your email agent is good. If its stripped, your email agent is broken. It really is that simple. Many email agents think they are doing the user a favor when they strip the useless (to them) sigs from the bottom of a message before they show it to the reader, and since the convention in email formatting places a 'newline dash dash space' as the sig separator, this is very easy for them to do. But it is not correct to strip it until one hits the reply keys, then it actually becomes wasted space cuz most will add their own. Until that reply key is hit, it should show you this stuff, which is appended by the server as the last 2 lines or so of the message it forwards to the subscribers. Below my sig. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The salesman drove over the CPU board. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
