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From:Matthew Garrett
Date:25 Aug 2000 at 16:29:05
Subject:Re: onEscapee help required - sorry about the attachment.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:19:34PM +0100, John Lord wrote:

> Well, if you don't like it, cant you set your mail prog to strip sigs then you
> wont have to read it :)

We should reconfigure our software to deal with the fact that your
software (admittedly at its user's instructions) is emitting crap at us?

> You 2 are the only ones who had had a problem with it, so it stays the same,
> /_*#and I'm not gonna reply to any other messages about this, I've got more
> important things to do with my time :)#*_/

Sigs shouldn't be longer than 4 lines, and they certainly shouldn't
contain propriatory rubbish that's supported by a tiny number of mail
clients. The fact that nobody else has bothered complaining does not mean
that it's acceptable.



Matthew Garrett | mjg59@cam.ac.uk

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