Re: List Message Footer - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: List Message Footer
Date
Msg-id 3073cc9b0903201807p57369c9csc0c7998f4dea0547@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: List Message Footer  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-www
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>
>> > The obvious difference is that headers are normally hidden as
>> > uninteresting metadata, whereas footers are shown as normal body text.
>>
>> Programs that know what a footer is might well not do that.
>
> There are no such programs.  Turning off footers ("signatures") is
> dangerous, because the delimiters are not widespread, so hiding them
> risks hiding important data.  Actually what some programs do is show
> them in a different, less visible color or font, for example; but I have
> never seen one that hides them completely.
>

Actually, gmails hides footers (instead puts a message to expand the
footer)... is very annoying because sometimes hides usefull
information, but...


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Jaime Casanova
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