On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:38:31AM -0400, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:04:34PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > I think the consensus was that some MUA's show it and some don't but
> > that mostly it was caused by pgp signing. That is a pgp-signed message
> > may or may not show it depending on the MUA used. However, if you look
> > at the message source, you will see it there regardless of what is
> > shown in the normal view. 
> 
>     Actually, more precisely, it isn't PGP signing it is MIME encapsulation of
> a multi-part message.  It just so happens that on this list the most often
> seen multi-part message is PGP signatures.  However one could PGP sign their
> message in-line (AKA, the old way) and I believe the appended text would show
> up.  By the same token one could post to this list a multi-part HTML message
> with no PGP signature and the appended text would not show up.
> 

you are right. my mistake.

It still seems to me that the solution is to have the list system
append a fully formed attachement instead of a plain text
footer. Maybe that is more complicated than I think it is.

A

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