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

[Gary Stainburn]

On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 1:24 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> 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

Oh well, failed on two counts. I can't type - missed out the word 'isn't', and
the list didn't strip it.

KMail did however strip off the end of the message automatically when I
created this reply.
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