RE: Mailing list postings

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 7:50 pm, Buck Calabro wrote:
> >I thought that the double dash under my name was
> >supposed to cause some programs to automatically
> >truncate what follows.
>
> Not MS Outlook.

No surprise there. FWIW my mailer, KMail, recognises the end of message 
delimiter, as do most *nix mail programs. I don't remember offhand, but I 
think Forte Agent does as well (been a while since I used it). 

The separator actually needs to be dash-dash-space on its own line to be 
valid, and I've heard that MS mailers strip trailing spaces from lines - 
so breaking the convention.

> >And, some companies, (Granted Ben Franklin quotes
> >probably don't apply), require the 'authorized
> >use only' type of signatures.
>
> I got flamed for that in a previous life, but there was naught I could
> do: the mail server put that on all outgoing messages.
>   --buck

Our Notes servers are configured to do that as well, which is why I 
usually stick to this address for sending from. I managed to get some of 
the wording on our disclaimer reworded, but I still think it's a bit on 
the brain dead side. I don't see them (disclaimers) as a problem, as long 
as they (hopefully) get trimmed out of any follow-ups.

Regards, Martin
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