On Monday 05 Mar 2012 17:10:06 Peter Merchant wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:47 +0000, Terry Coles wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 Mar 2012 15:53:01 [email protected] wrote:
>> > BTW. Your post had me totally bamboozled for a while. You put your
> > response beneath the two 'hyphens' that denote the start of the sig, so
> > every time I hit 'Reply' your words disappeared ;-)
>
> Interesting. I was doing it on-line as I did not have access to my
> 'office' as it was Mother-in-Law and Granddaughter's bedroom for the
> weekend. I was pruning out what I thought was a bit of excess in order
> to minimize the email size. So these two hyphens have a purpose and
> shouldn't be used in the middle of emails in case they stimulate the
> addition of extra material?
Absolutely, when men were men and all mail clients obeyed the RFCs, those two
hyphens delineated the end of the message and the beginning of the Sig.
'Proper' Clients, like KMail, still remove the chaff in the Sig, but MS
Clients and Webmail tools generally don't understand them.
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