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------- Additional Comments From michael.s.olsen us army mil 2008-07-28 22:32
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I must concur with the many who find being forced into using the "-- "
convention both awkward and violating. While the convention was of reasonable
importance 10 years ago, especially on Unix based systems, it has generally out
grown its effective use and purpose today. Today, many of us have not only a
simple closing and our name, but an entire block of information that we
routinely add at the bottom of email (e.g. Sig Block with office number, hours,
office address and email). Forcing the use of this very old convention is
pointless and greatly detracts from a professional appearance.
More important is the concept behind the action. Open source software is
supposedly meant to be configurable to the end users needs; however with the
current methods of distribution and the need to be able to maintain and upgrade
with reasonable ease, forcing a nearly outdated and meaningless convention on
people is essentially an ethics breach. It makes you no different than the
unresponsive Microsoft Corp. and other closed source software producers.
My suggestion is simple. Give a simple checkbox option below the field for
signatures allowing for the convention. If you wish, make it active by default.
This still allows the end user to create a custom ending to THEIR emails, but
allows them to choose whether or not to follow the "-- " convention.
Personally, I handle about 50 military and US Government emails a day. All are
required by regulation to have and use specific signature block formats. In
the US Gov & Mil, the "-- " convention is specifically forbidden. Your
enforced use is actually on major reason that KMail, along with Evolution and
others, is not being installed. MS Outlook has become a defacto standard do to
your unwillingness to provide your users the options that matter to THEM. I am
exceptionally diss appointed in the KMAIL and KDE teams for their lack of
attention to and respect for the customer's needs. This is the simplest wish
to address and fix KMAIL has had and it has not been fixed after 5 years of
being addressed
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