[WikiEN-l] Footers (WAS: Re: Deleting the Lolicon picture)

Tue Apr 4 13:33:26 UTC 2006

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Perhaps it would be better if there was NO footer at all (rather
than stripping out multiple occurences of the footer post-sending). This
would solve the display problems you mentioned without screwing PGP
signing. Surely the fact that [WikiEN-l] is in the subject line tells
someone that the email is from the mailing list, without the need for
the footer.

Cynical

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On 4 Apr 2006 at 11:01, David Alexander Russell <webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> True - but could I add that if everyone put their message ABOVE the
>> quoted text, rather than below, then this issue would be moot anyway
>> (since we wouldn't need to go through the endless footers in order to
>> get to the message)
> 
> Digest-mode readers (such as myself) still have to scroll through all 
> of that excrement in order to get to the next message.
> 
> It can also be difficult to follow a list with lots of topics going 
> on at once if there isn't any contextual quoting (carefully trimmed) 
> above the response to remind you of what is being replied to.  
> Reading the context *after* the reply is awkwardly backward.
> 

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