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

[Gervase Markham]

> 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.

Because 
a) Every piece of newsreader software on the planet would not understand
++ . 
b) A signature appears at the end of a document, by analogy with paper
documents. Everyone knows that.

Gerv