Re: please remove me from this list

[Chris Babcock <cbabcock@...>]

>> PS. The footer should actually start with the line "-- " because by
>> convention this marks the start of e-mail footers. When you reply to a
>> message with such a marker, e-mail clients like Thunderbird will strip the
>> footer in the reply so they don't pile up like internationalized "Re:"
>> subject prefixes tend to do :-)
>>
>>
> Adding such a footer will render any email 'signing' invalid. It
> doesn't matter terribly much for this mailing list, I think, but I do
> find it annoying when mailing lists fiddle with message content.

You'd be correct if Mailman munged the body of the incoming mail to
add the footer, but it does handle the list footer correctly:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-January/064728.html

Chris