Ben Finney wrote: > "Mariano Suárez-Alvarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Feb 7, 3:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> [disclaimer dozens of lines long] >> Is this absurd signature really necessary? > > No. > > <URL:http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/> > "Necessary" is dependent on control, of course, and I believe many people are in the same situation as Matthew. If they want to use corporate email they have to put up with the crap that their ill-informed legal department makes the sysadmins configure the outgoing mailer to add.
That particular trailing crud would be much nicer if they'd put a space after the leading "--", that way at least we wouldn't have to trim them out of our replies. This merely tells us that the sysadmins are as ill-informed as the legal staff ... or perhaps it's just Matthew trying his best to help us, since I see it appears above the list mailer trailer. The system is probably trimming the trailing spaces off the message body. Oh well, ... regards steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
