On 1 Aug 1997, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Put a string in the footer. Match it in taboo_body. Reject all messages
> that trip the filter.
>
> Who wants to see posts from people too lazy to trim even that much of the
> quoted text?
Oooh, harsh. Are you suggesting I delete those messages completely? How
does that fit in with the list owners' ethics? jc mentioned he would not
want to remove a quoted footer at all, for concern of editing the content.
Deleting the message all together, that's something I had not considered
> ML> What I need is something along the lines of digest_rm_footer, but for
> ML> single messages.
>
> Can't work; too often the text is munged, rewrapped, prefixed by some
> random character or set of characters, etc. It would be incredibly
> difficult to recognize it and _properly_ remove it. It's much easier to
> filter it.
I see your point. Too many mailers, too many strange people out there to
catch it all. Maybe I'm anticipating more quoting of footers than will
really happen?
Nah....
-Mitch
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