[conspire] I get mail

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Texx (texxgadget at gmail.com):

> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon>
> Virus-free.
> www.avast.com
> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link>
> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

Texx, your recent postings to Conspire advertise some fleabag
antimalware company (as above).  That's obnoxious, so please disable
that now.  Instructions here (select 'Show details', scroll to
'Disable the Avast signature for outgoing emails'):
https://support.avast.com/en-ww/article/97/

In the 1990s, I found this advertising practice targeting credulous
technophobes amusing (see parody, below).  Decades on, it's just
annoying, and has no place on mailing lists.


Technically, you're welcome to have _anything_ in a .signature, including
(without prejudice) advertising, provided each .sig follows the standard
RFC2646 .signature delimiter line:  two consecutive hyphens, then a
space character, then a newline (a hard return).

With that delimiter included, anyone wishing to filter out .signatures
can.  Also, mail software can avoid quoting .signatures, in replies.
(Naturally, Avast disobeys netiquette.)


Anyway, please fix.  I'm serious, and am not open to debate on this
matter.  Thank you.

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