Blocking or editing those annoying email disclaimers

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:54:55AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>What do people think about either blocking or editing out the
>>annoying email disclaimers that some people have at the bottom
>>of their messages before they show up in the mailing list?
>>
>>Right now we ignore them but, with some disclaimers, if you are
>>to believe the wording we really may not have the right to archive
>>or even read the messages.
>
>Therefore we should bounce them back ...  We certainly should not
>strip them.  The problem is reliably detecting [il]legal disclaimers.
>Do you have tool that does a good job of it?

I could just detect a "DISCLAIMER.*intended recipient" at the end of
an email address.  I'll bet that would catch most.  We could even
hold the messages for moderation if people were willing to volunteer
for moderation duty.

Or, I could just rely on people noticing and sending email to overseers
with the explicit wording so that we can exactly block email containing
that text.  For the first occurrence, it might be nice to send a
politely worded message from a human saying that their email in its
current form would not be accepted.

Doing either is relatively trivial.

cgf