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[Juan Nin <address@concealed>]

I'm testing the message footers and I see that a a text file named
message-footer.txt is attached.

At http://www.sympa.org/release.shtml in a section about changes I find:

src/List.pm: [reported by gilles tellier] Add a Fileneme 
message-header.txt or message-footer.txt name for compatibility with outlook.

what's this compatibility thing with Outlook?
what does Outlook use it for??

why isn't juust the text added at the end of the e-mail?
(maybe it's complicated with multipart messages??)

thanks in advance,

Juan