On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:51 PM, David E. Fox wrote:
[...snip...]But *if* doing that makes the signature footer always visible, why not?Obviously one has to way the disadvantage of added bloat (adding signatures this way is going to make for slightly bigger mails) vs. having a defense ("there's the signature") against people who just can't figure out how to unsubscribe and send invective the way Ms. Oncay did. Still, I'm skeptical as to whether Ms. Oncay saw or didn't see one.
Remember, Ms B.O. was complaining about list traffic _in general_.Whether she saw the footer with the snippy comment or not is beside the point. The footer was certainly there on _at least one_ of the other messages.
This bloat issue is interesting. Since all messages would have identical footers, it's a shame that they all couldn't just reference the same one. That would lessen bloat and bandwidth.