[WikiEN-l] Quoting back list footers

Anthony DiPierro wikilegal at inbox.org
Sun Dec 11 23:20:18 UTC 2005


On 12/11/05, Steve Bennett <wiki at stevage.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Could *somebody* program the mailing list software used by this list
> > to reject messages that quote back the list footers, as done *four*
> > times in a row above?  That might put a stop to the
>
> <snip inflammatory top-posting vs bottom posting comments>
>
> Wouldn't a better suggestion be, if someone is actually going to
> reprogram the list server, to simply trim off all quoted footers?
> Computers were designed to do our monotonous work for us, after all.
>
> Steve

We could always just not add the footers in the first place.  But then
we might get a post about how to unsubscribe every few months.

Anthony



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