From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jeff.covey@pobox.com (jeff covey)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:39:09 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] sup wishlist
In-Reply-To: <1179344168-sup-5879@south>
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Message-ID: <20070518133908.GA1759@mona.jeffcovey.net>

on Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:36:22PM -0700%, William Morgan said:

> > - an equivalent to mutt's display_filter.
>
> This should'nt be hard to do either, but the question is whether we should
> just improve the signature detection in Sup. 

no, there's no way to make the signature detection handle all the arbitrary
problems that people present in their messages.  some of them just have to
be handled manually on a case-by-case basis.  for example, one of the
regular posters on one mailing list i read considers this a valid signature
(and doesn't demarcate it with "-- "):

> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  VISTA SOFTWARE, DESIGNED TO RESTRICT WHAT YOU CAN DO.  www.badvista.org
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve Neither liberty nor safety",    Benjamin Franklin
> -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>    ASCII Ribbon Campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . accessBob
>    .NO HTML/PDF/RTF/MIME in e-mail. . . . . . . accessys at smartnospam.net
>    .NO MSWord docs in e-mail . . . .. . . . . . Access Systems, engineers
>    .NO attachments in e-mail, .*LINUX powered*. access is a civil right
> *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#
> THIS message and any attachments are CONFIDENTIAL and may be
> privileged.  They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named

no poor regexp should be taxed with handling things like this.

> Do you use this for other things?

i do assorted minor cleanup and generally remove things i don't need to see.
i'll attach the script i use, based on one from a friend.

i don't know what other people do with it, but i imagine some people format
messages with par and otherwise make other people's mail look like what they
would want to send themselves.

i find it a very useful feature for limiting what's displayed on the screen
to just the meaningful information.  for a thread-based display like sup's,
i think it would be doubly useful when dealing with screens full of replies.
i wouldn't want to scroll past bob's signature again and again.

> > - gpg support would be nice someday.  :)
> 
> Someone is actually working on this right now!

awesome!  :)

thanks,

-- 
jeff covey
http://jeffcovey.net/

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