Re: Mailing list headers

[MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>]

Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com> wrote:
> Of course I am.  Message direction information goes at the top of
> emails, not in the sig.  Sigs are background noise [...]

That does rather ignore why we first had signature blocks.  They included
reply preference information because you can't always trust that people will
see the headers you put on the message.

> In any event, I see no reason to use my sig to exhort people to follow the
> list's rules. [...]

The writer of the list rules probably expected you to put the request
somewhere that most people would see!