[Mailman-Users] Footer Appended as Attachment in 2.1?

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Thu Apr 29 19:39:03 CEST 2004


Quoting Kai Schaetzl (maillists at conactive.com):
> Hunter Hillegas wrote on Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:08:13 -0700:
> > Any way to fix this and retain the message in HTML format?
> 
> Add the footer in HTML and integrate it in the existing message ;-) Better 

Where?  Before the </html> tag (if there is one)?  Before the </body> tag
(if there is one)?  Find the last paragraph tag and put it after the end
of the text that follows it?  What if there are divs and other CSS markup?
And what about the principle that you shouldn't mess with the body of a
message except for putting clearly marked headers and footers that are
obviously not part of the sender's text?  Once you start trying to parse
the html and put something in it, you're modifying the sender's text,
which is evil.

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