RE: Useless disclaimers (was: attaching hooks with specific activ ities in CVS )

[Jim.Hyslop]

Andy Jones wrote:
> >Such disclaimers on messages posted to public mailing lists 
> are specious
> >at best.
> 
> Err, guys?  I don't think he actually *typed* that bit.  He 
> almost certainly doesn't have a choice about it appearing on 
> the bottom of his mail... 
I think everyone's aware that those disclaimers are automatically appended.
I think the idea is to bring the ridiculousness of the disclaimer to the
attention of the OP, who will be in a better position to have somebody
remove it.

One mail list I subscribe to, the majordomo recognizes a special keyword,
--LongSig (case-sensitive). The majordomo then replaces all text after that
keyword with something like [**Long signature truncated**]

Any possibility of getting something like that implemented on this list?


-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)