Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> But, the question is: why? and not just to you, but Tom/Magnus/Alvarre
> >> ... I'm not advocating for, I'm just curious why ppl are against ...
>
> > Yea, I should have stated that. I think the footer is full enough and I
> > just don't see enough demand for URL lookups to warrant it.
>
> Same here. The information is already provided; we don't need to
> duplicate it in the footer. I'm not impressed by the argument that
> some folks' mail programs won't dig it out of the headers --- I think
> it's about as likely that they won't dig a URL out of a standard footer
> either.
The obvious difference is that headers are normally hidden as
uninteresting metadata, whereas footers are shown as normal body text.
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