Re: Disclaimers in Email Sigs

Keith MARSHALL wrote:

> Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> I did not mean to cause any offence by my signature. As you suggest,
>> it is a corporate policy that requires the signature be appended by
>> default to all emails; however it is enforced on the client and so I
>> do have the capability to remove it manually.
> 
> Oh.  I didn't take offence; apologies if my response gave that
> impression.
> 
> I have recently seen similar criticism of this practice on another
> list -- can't remember which one.  As Julien has noted, such content
> really is inappropriate for list mail, and does tend to accumulate
> clutter in the list archives, particularly if it isn't cut from
> follow up postings.
> 
> It's one of those little irritations which, along with top-posting,
> and HTML content, I would prefer not to see on this list, if it can
> be avoided.

If you're really bothered by such things, perhaps you might get the
soureforge ml admins to run posts to the list through a procmailrc file.
Eg:

#=========================================================================
# Removing signatures from mailman lists
:0 f
* Delivered-To: i..er-c....e-G7Jjy744/yUAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| sed -e '/^-- $/,$d'
#=========================================================================


Given that SF add their own junk, a filter such as

sed '/^-\{55\}$/{
  $!{
    N
    /This SF\.net email is sponsored by:/{
:loop
      $!{
        N
        bloop
      }
      d
    }
  }
}'

would be rather nice ;-)

Angus





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