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

[Peter Lairo]

Gervase Markham wrote:

>>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
> ++ . 


That is why i am suggesting to change the RFC. You gotta start 
somewhere. How do standards eveolve? Surely not by staying with the 
lowest common denominator. I doubt adding two plusses (++) will brake 
anything :)

> b) A signature appears at the end of a document, by analogy with paper
> documents. Everyone knows that.


No, in all of our reports, the signature comes after the report text, 
THEN come the supporting documents (tables, lab analyses, copies of 
coorespondence, etc.).

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Regards,

Peter Lairo