No, that won't work because LISTSERV adds the bottom-banner before
checking the content-filter.

Francoise

On 22 Nov 2004 at 10:06, Kevin Parris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I haven't tried this myself, but have seen mention somewhere that in
> 1.8e the content-filtering mechanism can be used to reduce the "banner
> quoted in reply" nuisance.  As I understand it, the technique is to put
> the text of your bottom_banner in a content filter specification also,
> to cause any message containing it to be refused by the server.
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 11/19/2004 11:56:39 AM >>>
> Because of the Data Protection we have a standard bottom banner for all
> the lists
> HTML & text.
>
> How do we fix it so the banner does not keep muliplying when people
> reply.
> Is there anyway to strip it out so it only appears once.
>
> For discussion lists people now have got into the habit of cleaning off
> the old messages or making them shorter for reference but they leave the
> banner. The result is banner after banner according to the number of
> replies.
>
> I have just checked one message that has 20 replies and the last
> message should the bottom banner included 20 times. The message is only
> a few words so it looks ridiculous on the web
>
> It becomes complicated when those replying have their own company
> banners which also gets all mixed up inside.
>
> Susanne