[thelist] Re: mail signatures

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Kevin

A doctorate in Physics doesn't qualify you to comment authoritatively
on legal issues. Dr Stockton certainly doesn't seem to have any
relevant experience. He puts the info you quote on a page
labelled as *personal* views on *newsgroup* posting, so I'm
not sure how it translates into a general command regarding
email use anyway.

And if RFC writers didn't take account of extant legislation, then it's
a poor job on their part too.

Martin


To:   thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject:  [thelist] Re: mail signatures


Quoth "spinhead" <evolt at spinhead.com> quoting moi:
> > Your email program should use it to *strip signatures when composing
> > replies*.  If it does not do that it is broken, regardless of any other
> > capabilities it may boast.
>
> Interesting bit. Where does this come from? (I'm genuinely curious, even
if
> it sounds like I'm saying 'Says who?')

Fair question.  Per Dr. John Stockton's page at www.merlyn.demon.co.uk,

"For the consensus recommendation, see Son-of-RFC1036 section 4.3.2, end;
also RFC1855, a.k.a. FYI28."  The custom originated in netnews but is
generally considered applicable to mail as well.  In RFC-speak it's a
SHOULD rather than a MUST but it's still a darn good idea.

And I just found another 90K or so of PWC disclaimers I missed on my
first pass.  Time to send them a bill, I think. :-)


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