Barbara Duprey wrote: > 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?
I get Gene's signatures. But I do not get any signature with your message. I am using Thunderbird and use Gmane to read/write mailing lists. I am using a gmail address for all the mailing lists. Finally, if I view my own messages, I do seen my own signature as well. Do these observations shed any more light on this problem? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
