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