What you can do about legalese nonsense on email

[Rustom Mody]

On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 6:49:52 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 9/8/2016 4:52 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Joaquin Alzola writes:
> >> <Do you realize how stupid it is to put this on a message sent all around the world?
> >>
> >> Cannot do anything.
> >
> > That's not true; you can do more than we.
> >
> >> Added by the MTA of the company not by my client.
> >
> > Right. So, here are things you can do (that we cannot) about this:
> 
> Something that some 'we' could do is ask the python-list 
> manager/programmers, or more broadly, the mailman developers, to 
> recognize an 'end of message' line, such as '--end message--' and delete 
> it and anything appended thereafter.  Then Joaquin and people in a 
> similar situation could add the magic line as the end of a signature block.
> 
> -- 
> Terry Jan Reedy

Thanks Terry for a constructive thought.