Gene Heskett wrote:
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.
Your sig came through, but I don't think that is the cause of the
missing unsubscribe trailer -- it has a long string of dashes, not the
standard two, so it would not follow the rules for sig stripping. My
best guess is that those who use gmail addresses for posting do not get
the trailer on their posts, while others do (sometimes grayed out below
a user sig, as for yur post, and therefore not repeated in replies). I
haven't really investigated that, though. Anybody else figured out
what's happening here?
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