Disclaimer Attachment- ONLY ONCE

[Marco Benton]

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Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 09:01 PM 10/25/2004, Marco Benton wrote:
>
>> alot of companies use the <...barf...> disclaimers and MailScanner has
>> an easy way to add it, although not what inteded for.  not every company
>> has gurus and pointy-haired managers want certain things even tho they
>> dont make sense.  but is it right to *not* add that feature because of
>> l-users?
>
>
> IMO, yes, but I think so because the feature only serves l-users.
>
> If there was a redeeming value to it beyond lusers, I'd say add it.
> But it
> doesn't. It only serves those adding clueless disclaimers to their
> mail. It
> doesn't aid those using the feature for virus sigs. It doesn't aid
> mailing
> lists because mailing list management packages have their own signature
> tools. It really doesn't aid anyone in a useful valid way.
>
> I'll leave it up to Julian, but quite frankly I think it's a waste of his
> time to implement a feature that does the internet community as a whole a
> great disservice, and only serves to comfort clueless PHBs.
>
> If the PHBs want disclaimers, fine, but I don't think they should get
> that
> for free from Julian.
>
> There's plenty of other useful things for him to be doing.. Like
> enjoying a
> pint of ale/glass of wine/ beverage of choice :)
>
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i do agree.  i'm just playing the role of the l-users and pointy-haired
managers.

if Julian does decide to do this in a fully compatible way, it *will* be
painfull!  i remember writing that disclaimer milter and having to deal
with  email clients that didnt fully comply with MIME standards...never
mind the raw message bodies that came from brain-dead MTA's or email
clients (most likely spammer servers).

as long as he enjoys the good stuff and not a pint of stomach burning
acid made in the backyard.  ;-)

--

Marco Benton - BOFH, BSMFH
Network Consultant
Phone: (774) 808-4051
Fax  : (508) 519-6033

BOFH excuse #306: The cause of the problem is: emissions from GSM-phones

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