At 01:44 07/09/96 -0500, Winship scribed:
>Some notes on what Pete said:
 
>      At least edit out the enormous sigs.  We've got five and a
>      half years of archives for one list; had I the time and energy
>      to do it I could probably cut the disk space use for it in half
>      simply by getting rid of the totally pointless quotes.
>
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>
>Douglas
 
You know (he mused thoughtfully), would it be worthwhile for LSOFT to
automatically cut .sigs? Most mail programs automatically prepend the "--"
to sig's, and a great many users do it anyway for anonymous remailer use. If
the next incarnation of Eudora automatically adds it, and AOL/Prodigy/CI$
can be convinced to do so, that will nail probably %80 of the net.
So then, if LISTSERV automatically cut everything after the "--" before
archiving/digesting, it'd save a heck of a lot of disk space/ bandwidth,
wouldn't it?
 
Thinkin' out loud,
Philo
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