Bill Stewart said:
Julf's anon.penet.fi remailer cuts off anything resembling a signature, using the convention that a -- line (or maybe an all-dash line?) is a signature, since some of the common mail and news programs use that,
Picking any fixed sig marker is likely to cause problems -- notice how often anon.penet.fi messages show up truncated due to a line of hyphens. A more flexible possibility: allow an X-Sig-Marker: header, which specifies a pattern/regexp to strip after. Actually, the sig marker line itself should be stripped as well, in case it contains identifying information.
formal and mimeish, or a simpler '--truncate here--' sort of line that gets retained across remailing so additional junk doesn't accrete.
I don't see the problem you're guarding against. Could you explain? Seems that sig elision needs to be done once, by the first hop, and then you're home free. Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu