does email officially identify carrier-added crap?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Apr 7 22:38:57 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:57:25PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   since i normally torture my local (KW)LUG with questions, i figured
> i'd entertain TLUG this time.
> 
>   is there an official standard that dictates how email
> senders/carriers must identify the self-promotional rubbish they add
> to messages?  as in, "this message sent from my blackberry" --
> annoying nonsense like that.
> 
>   do any standards for email or MIME require that such additional
> verbiage be clearly identifiable?  thanks.

I don't know if that had been imagined.

I do know what signatures are apparently supposed to use two dashes and
a space, then the signature on the next line.  You apparently don't. :)

> rday
> -
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> Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
> 
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> 
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The TLUG trailer does almost (it only appears to use two dashes.
Of course it isn't a signature either.

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