[WikiEN-l] Quoting back list footers

Tue Dec 13 19:29:10 UTC 2005

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:16:01 +0100, Steve Bennett <wiki at stevage.com> wrote:

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>> 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>
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> 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.

Why not just "escape" it with a sig marker  
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block#E-mail_and_Usenet>? I mean  
add "hyphen hyphen space newline". Any standards compliant mail sofrware  
will automaticaly strip anything following such a sig marker when  
replying. Some clueless mail software (like Outlook) would still cause  
problems, but still...

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