Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.

Larry Sheldon larrysheldon at cox.net
Sun Sep 6 18:14:16 UTC 2015


On 9/6/2015 11:46, Robert Drake wrote:

> Maybe people could adopt an unofficial-official end-of-signature flag.
> Then you could have procmail strip everything after the flag:
>      --
>      This is my signature
>      My phone number goes here
>      I like dogs
>      -- end of signature --
>      Everything below here and to the right of here was inserted by my
> mailserver, which is run by lawyers who don't understand you can't
> enforce contracts through emails to public mailing lists. Please delete
> if you're not the intended recipient.
>
>
> Of course, when you route around something like this it usually comes
> back 10 fold, but maybe if it became worthless they might do things the
> right way and put stuff like this in email headers.
>
> X-Optional-Flags:  Delete-if-not-intended-recipient,
> might-contain-secret-company-information-we-didn't-bother-to-encrypt
>
> Then let the email clients try to work out what that means.

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block

I thought that was in rfc 2822, but I can not find it.

>


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