anon.penet.fi hacking

Eric shows a complicated regular expression, but I don't think it
will match just --, because this line provides nothing to match the
"." and "[^B]", etc.
 
I think the real point is that Eric's idea allows the user to customize the
regular expression to match the particular signature line used by his
system.  If the line is just --, he can use Eric's simple example.  If it's
something else, another line can be used to look for the match.  Since it's
not hard for users to find out how their signatures look it should not be
hard to set up a pattern that will strip them.
 
Hal

> Eric shows a complicated regular expression, but I don't think it
> will match just --, because this line provides nothing to match the
> "." and "[^B]", etc.

Instead of these ballooning regexps, how about just using Chael
Hall's standardized "end of body" marker?  Even if some people had
to add it manually to each message, well, that's not a big deal.
But I suspect that the people who have sigs being added by BBS
software are going to have trouble adding strange header lines, even
if they have the regexp expertise to construct them.  

Anyone who does control their sig, but doesn't want to take the
trouble to include it only some of the time, can just add the
marker.  People might even be able to convince BBS sysops to add it
to their autosigs.  Or if this just looks too cluttered, maybe the
sig-clipper header could just be "Signature-Lines:" -- clip that
many, or none by default, and you're done.

> Hal

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> Instead of these ballooning regexps, how about just using Chael
> Hall's standardized "end of body" marker?  Even if some people had
> to add it manually to each message, well, that's not a big deal.
> But I suspect that the people who have sigs being added by BBS
> software are going to have trouble adding strange header lines, even
> if they have the regexp expertise to construct them.  

Didn't we go through this at least twice already. Yes, your suggestion
is perfectly OK for a "pure" cypherpunks remailer with sophisticated
users. It is *NOT* OK for something like the typical anon.penet.fi user
from alt.sexual.abuse.recovery or alt.transgendered. And at least
anon.penet.fi allows for using the special header lines as part of the
message body, to compensate for braindamaged mail systems. But some users
might not even be *aware* that their systems add sigs - yes, I've come
across a lot of those....

	Julf