[183540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sun Sep 6 14:14:29 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 13:14:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: <DsnZ1r00S1cZc5601snbVB>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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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