Joe Clark <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> I would take issue with the statement that the "-- " demarcation for >> signature blocks is widely used. A review of the archives of this list > >which beats the hell out of zero, which is what Listserv currently >assumes, judging two messages with identical content but different >.sigs as different. I'd like to see the count of non-standard sigs in a sample of (say) 1000 from a newsgroup mainly populated by netiquette savvy old-hands before accepting that it ("-- ") is not widely used. Interesting that (according to Pete) LISTSERV stops processing commands when it hits a sig marker ("-- "), but ignores it when checking for dupes. But is this a significant problem, anywhere? How often do you see identical messages with different sigs? This (non?)issue is creating quite a stir, while the much more common problem of overquoting sank with scarcely a ripple. I'll pose it again: bouncing messages that contained the list's bottom banner would catch the large majority of overquoters because they are too lazy or too inconsiderate to trim _anything_. Once they were forced to learn to trim the the banner, at least some of them would go on to learn to trim other irrelevant parts. Am I about the only one here that thinks this would be a very useful feature? -rex