"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
Mark Sapiro writes:
According to <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call> that list is on Mailman 2.1.29. The default message footer separator was changed from "_______________________________________________" to "-- " as of Mailman 2.1.24
Why did we do that?
Because it makes sense. The message footer is identical to a signature in every respect: a standardized attachment to the actual message with no direct content reference to it, which you want to be able to hide and which should be suppressed in a reply. It doesn't matter if such a footer or signature is added by the poster, by the mail client or server (for example in a corporate setting) or by a mailing list manager.
It's not obvious to me that that was a good idea. Maybe it's better to distinguish the list's "signature" from a poster's signature by using a different separator.
Why?
-thh