Disclaimer Attachment- ONLY ONCE

[Julian Field]

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Marco Benton wrote:

> 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).

I'm inclined to go with the "no" vote here. Once you start considering
MUAs that have turned the original text into HTML, it gets very hard
indeed. You have no idea how it might have done it, so you can't even
just search for the sig in the text. Spaces and line breaks are likely
to have been played with.

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

Stomach acid, now there's a long story I'll spare you...
Not had any stomach acid since operation number 4 back in 1991. You can
do without all sorts of bits of your insides, I'm living proof :-)

Anyone fancy buying me a Mac laptop? I've just got an iMac G5 at work,
and my PC is starting to gather dust already. Hopefully I've got one of
those lovely little OQOs on the way (see www.oqo.com) so I can work on
the move more easily. Built-in Bluetooth combined with my phone =
productive train trips. They look dead cool, I'll report back once I've
had it a while.

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