[Wylug-discuss] I am going to see Master of the recycling bin - Do you have any questions.

[Gary Stainburn]

On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 1:12 pm, Graham Whaley wrote:
> [snip loads...]
>
> > [snip far too large sig, what happenned to them being <= 4 lines?]
>
>  Hmm, that signature.  Believe me, if I could get rid of it, I would.  I
> don't think pointing out to the powers that be here that is is probably
> meaningless and causes more bad press than good will do anything either :-(
>
>  So, you may notice the '--LongSig' in the message.  On other lists
> (majordomo based?), this causes the list to replace the rest of the message
> with one line saying something like [truncated by list server], thus
> preventing the signature from spreading.  I guess this does not work on
> this list.  Does the list have any mechanism for auto truncating long
> signatures for those of us who have them thrust upon our emails by the
> infastructure ?
>

I think, the '--' on it's own works with some, also having a space between the
'--' and 'LongSig' may work.  If there's anything below this para, it's
worked

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>
>  Oh, to add a Wylug aspect to this thread.... wonder how many Linux
> firewalls we could make from the pile of old PCs that are regularly at the
> tip ?
>
> --LongSig
>
>  and if LongSig does nothing, does '--' ??

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