Re: Mozilla should put the Signature ABOVE the Quoted Text, when "start my reply above the quoted text" is selected in prefs

[Peter Lairo]

Neil Durant wrote:

> Peter Lairo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> 
>>>> This should work no matter where the sig block is placed. That's just a
>>>> hacked solution. Better would be a dropdown selection where you can
>>>> choose from various signatures (e.g., home/work, Text/HTML).
>>>
>>>   Yeah, but again, that's the point - it *does* work no matter where 
>>> you  .sig currently is. And that drop-down is already there - the 
>>> from thing  I was talking about above.
>>
>>
>> Great, so the sig shoud be able to go directly below my text (and not 
>> way down below the quoted text).
> 
> 
> One thing people are missing is that the signature separator ("-- ") 
> that is supposed to come before the signature is used to tell mail/news 
> clients that "everything after this should not be quoted in replies". 
> Good mail/news software should implement this.
> 
> Why can't people just go and read the RFCs ?
> 

Then the RFC is bad. Software should work the way the user wants it to 
work (within reason, of course). If a mail client needs to know where a 
sig is, then why not define it as:

-- = sig beginning

++ = sig end

That way the sig could be anywhere. Simple, elegant, make everybody happy.



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Regards,

Peter Lairo