John Barrett wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Culp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:24 AM >Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] ACScript RFC (or FGScript ??) > > [Dave's message] > > -- > **************************** [<----- Dave's Signature] > David Culp > davidculp2[at]comcast.net > **************************** > > [John's message]
John, your email is malformed. :) You include the original text inline, rather than quoted (prefixed by some combination of ">" and whitespace). It looks like you are clicking "forward" rather than "reply" to compose your mail. This might seem like a meaningless nit, but it actually causes problems. In this case, the line containing "--" above is interpreted by my mail reader (Mozilla) as the beginning of a signature, which get colorized differently than the rest of the mail. There is nothing to tell the reader where the .sig ends and where your message begins, so your message ends up a dull, hard-to-read gray. Even worse, Mozilla helpfully *removes* the signature (and therefore all of your text!) when it quotes the mail into an editor buffer for a reply. Believe it or not, this stuff is actually specified in various RFCs. Microsoft has a horrific record of compliance with those standards, of course, but nonetheless I *have* seen correctly formatted quotes emerge from Outlook Express users. :) Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
