[ale] Yahoo Groups: perils?

[James Sumners]

Heh. I was referring to the original footers. I know what you mean
about people not trimming emails properly. Heck, sometimes I forget to
do it myself.

Happy birthday?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
>  > I participate in a couple Yahoo! Groups lists. Notably, ATLDTV. I
>  > haven't had any problems with them other than the spam automatically
>  > appended to every email. Of course, ALE does the same thing; just not
>  > in the same excess that Yahoo! does.
>
>  You must not be on the same list I'm on.  I've (on occasion) trimmed
>  literally hundreds of lines of extraneous redundantly repeated ALE
>  list footers from my replies, in some of the longer threads.  But I
>  guess that's mainly a netiquette issue. Though I do wonder how hard it
>  could be to pipe outgoing messages through a "strip quoted footers"
>  filter. OTOH I suppose there could be people who really like the
>  footers, and would be dreadfully upset were such a filter installed,
>  so maybe I should implement a solution on the client side.  Why, this
>  looks like an opportunity to learn Thunderbird plugin-fu!  I should
>  count my blessings.
>
>  -- JK, done wasting bandwidth now...
>
>  PS - I'm 40 today, and feeling curmudgeonly.


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