Fw: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Announce] Announcing Mailman 2.0 beta 6

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:44:21AM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> What I prefer to do, though, is to trap the footer. If someone 
> replies and leaves the footer attached, it's either an unedited 
> message or a mailbot, and either way you probably want to trap that. 
> So I look for a string in the footer or the digest list info, and try 
> to put a string in there that isn't going to show up in normal 
> conversation.

There's a *lot* of vacation-like stuff out there that doesn't include the
original message (or even something that identifies the message, like the
subject or any of the mail headers!)

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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