Shawn Neumann wrote: > David, > > There are 2 assumptions here. 1) that everyone is going to have a "huge > corporate sig" and 2) that it makes things less readable. > > Both of these are assumptions which may be true at times and false at > others. Because of this I think it is utterly ridiculous to not allow > people to CHOOSE to have their sig follow their comment every time > WITHOUT have to go through the hassle of copying and pasting it. > > Blocking this is lame attempt at imposing your aesthetic on everyone else. > > -- > shawn > > 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. >> >
So .. What do you propose to do about the other guy's news/mailreader that chops off the sig and everything BELOW it ??? Replying in the middle of a multi-reply thread is no problem but the sig should still go at the bottom of the "letter" just like in the business world. -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
