Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.
--- rdrake@direcpath.com wrote: From: Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com> Maybe people could adopt an unofficial-official end-of-signature flag. Then you could have procmail strip everything after the flag: ----------------------------------------- It could be much easier. Folks that care about the mailing list rules, want to be courteous to list folks and want to use their company email, rather than one that inserts no disclaimer, could put 15 lines of blank as part of their signature. This would force all the crap far enough down the page that it wouldn't be bothersome. scott
On 2015-09-06 19:18, Scott Weeks wrote:
It could be much easier. Folks that care about the mailing list rules, want to be courteous to list folks and want to use their company email, rather than one that inserts no disclaimer, could put 15 lines of blank as part of their signature. This would force all the crap far enough down the page that it wouldn't be bothersome.
scott
Everyone: Honestly.. the best method is to not let it bug you anymore. It's only a seething issue to you because you let it be. You're suggesting that one use 15 blank lines just so that you don't have to see any of these self-inflicted transgressions. It would be much simpler and less taxing on all involved to simply not let it bother you anymore. "Impossible!" you may cry.. but I don't believe so. I used to be the same. It's easily beatable. You could send twenty paragraphs of so-called 'legal text' suffixed to your email and I wouldn't so much as bat an eye. It may take some personal effort but you need to learn to 'let it go'. This is a non-issue in the scope of things and you've made a mountain out of this grain of sand. Brush it aside and move on. It isn't worth your time.
On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 09:14:02PM +0000, Connor Wilkins wrote:
Honestly.. the best method is to not let it bug you anymore. It's only a seething issue to you because you let it be.
Curiously enough, the same thing was said about spam 30-ish years ago. The "ignore it and maybe it will go away" approach did not yield satisfactory results. These "disclaimers" are stupid and abusive. They have no place in *any* email traffic, and most certainly not in a professional forum. And it is unreasonable to expect the recipients of the demands and threats they embody to silently tolerate them ad infinitum. ---rsk
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