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From: Sherilyn <sherilyn@suespammers.org>
Subject: Re: Signatures - an idea ?
Date: 15 Jul 2002 12:52:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87it3hupa3.fsf@happy.sherilyn.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874rf1yxom.fsf@chello.no>

Per-Karsten Nordhaug <pnordhau@chello.no> writes:

> [Henrik Enberg]
> > Per-Karsten Nordhaug <pnordhau@chello.no> writes:
> > (defun per-kill-signature ()

[...]

> 
> This was *somewhat* what I had in mind, but not quite. 'been puzzling
> around with something similar... But, what this does is remove ALL
> text after the "-- " marking the signature - which is not quite what I
> want when reporting spam - 'cause the text in the spam post/mail is
> quoted AFTER my signature - and since this removes everything after
> "-- ", it removes stuff I'd like to keep...

The signature, if any, should probably be at the end of an email.
Many existing email clients will tend to treat everything after the
signature separator as the signature and so you cannot guarantee that
the recipient will actually see anything that appears after it.
-- 
Sherilyn
http://www.greedycorporate.com/minority-report/
"Nobody quotes me in .sig files anymore." -  ¬R in ark
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-15 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-15 11:11 Per-Karsten Nordhaug
2002-07-15 11:32 ` Glyn Millington
     [not found] ` <87bs99usnt.fsf@enberg.org>
     [not found]   ` <874rf1yxom.fsf@chello.no>
2002-07-15 12:52     ` Sherilyn [this message]

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