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.
I agree. And if it ends up being implemented anyway for email, it *must not* be allowed in followups to newsgroups, since it would screw things up for people who use other newsreaders that honor the sigdash delimiter. Mozilla should play nice with other software.
