From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Tue Nov 02 1999 - 12:44:29 CST
jose.kahan@w3.org (jose.kahan@w3.org) writes:
>Well, for signatures, unfortunately, we don't have any specific
>text/signature MIME type... and text/plain will continue being
>parsed into HTML. However, there's no standard either that says that
>signatures will always begin with a "--" line either. By using this rule
>in hypermail, we're assuming a de-facto standard which isn't really true :)
>
>So, that's why I propose to remove this part of the code.
The autodetection of signatures works a lot of the time, and
occasionally adding <PRE>'s where they don't belong does much
less harm than avoiding them where they are needed, so I strongly
object to removing this.
I don't know whether html autodetection is desirable.
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