Top Posting and Message Trimming - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Jun 2006

On 14 Jun, 2006, at 05:22, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:

...

 OTOH, it's pointless in this environment and contributes to a  
 significant
 fraction of a message sent, so is just a total waste of space. I  
 would have
 thought it's obvious though that people object to the companies  
 that see the
 need to do this, not to the individual who posts to the list :-)

 I suppose the mailing list software could strip *all* signatures  
 from anything
 posted in order to save bandwidth, but that's hardly fair on those  
 who have
 legitimate, *useful* information in their sigs :-( 

Though I am not worried about this a thought occurs, if someone  
cannot suppress
a footer, they could add a key line before the footer - something like "

End of message

"

which could be recognised automatically and the key and everything  
following it
could be trimmed.

But don't lose sleep about it, short footers, top posting etc don't  
bother me, though
on other lists the replies to digests quoting the whole digest drive  
me mad.

Roger Holmes