Ben Bucksch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Bucksch wrote (much snipped):
>> There are strong (and IMO prohibitive) reasons why this bug is a very
>> bad idea:
>>
>> * the message would be malformed.
>> * As said, many mailers will remove the sig (as defined above)
>> during reply
>> * The sig is arguably less important than the quoted msg
> If nobody can defeat the above reasons (esp. the first 2 ones), I will
> go and mark it wontfix.
You could remove the dash-dash-space-newline when attaching the sig
above the quoted text. This would produce ugly and confusing but
standards-conformant messages, which is apparently what business users
think they want.
I still prefer my suggestion of attaching the mail to which you are
answering as a message/rfc821 attachment. If people want to attach
the message verbatim, then this is the clean way of doing it.
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