David Hallowell wrote:

> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62429
> I thought I'd try and start a discussion about this bug on the 
> newsgroups. I'm very opposed to 'fixing' this bug because whether or not 
> it's defaulted to off it will still encourage people to have bad habits 
> and the last thing I want to do is encourage more people with sigs above 
> the quoted message.
> 
> The current reasons for/against this feature are commented in the bug.
> 
> My main argument against it is that it ruins readability, reading a top 
> posted thread is more difficult anyway, never mind adding a huge 
> corporate sig before the quoted text.
> 
> Personally I'd want to see this bug marked wontfix, if people really 
> want to add the quoted text after the sig, I'd rather see bug 70478 - 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70478 - fixed because then 
> the user can turn off quoting text automatically and then paste the 
> quoted message wherever they deem most appropriate.
> 

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