On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:32 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:00 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:41 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > > On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > Which brings up another point.  We often tell newbies about
> > > > > html, but rarely do I see any mention of how to handle sigs.
> > > > > If someone leaves a sig in place and replies below, it is
> > > > > impossible to reply correctly, as Carroll said, because
> > > > > everything below the '--' line disappears.
> > > >snip> > > >
> > > > How do other MUA's handle sigs in a reply? What else are people
> > > > using--kmail, sylpheed, evolution . . .?
> > > >
> > > > Todd
> > >
> > >     Notice before my sig the two hyphens.  This is not bad design,
> > > it's a long time internet standard, that the sig is proceeded by
> > > the hyphens so that sig's are ignored by servers.  If your mail
> > > reader includes sigs in replys, that are properly separated from
> > > the mesg body by the hyphens, then it's your email client that has
> > > a bad design.  Kmail properly and automatically adds the hyphens
> > > before the sig.
> >
> > Right, this is the first I've seen or heard of a problem with sig lines.
> > My kmail seems to read it all without a problem.  Am I missing something?
> > Nothing appears to be amiss.
>
> Dennis:
> They show up fine when I'm reading my mail, but KMail chops them off when I
> enter a reply. I don't see that as a problem -- in fact, I like it, as it
> saves me the chore of deleting any stuff that may get appended to the
> message. (After all, how many times do we need to read about the services
> of the Mandrake Store -- in one message?)
> -- cmg
Yes, I see now, and I still don't see it as a problem. But then that's just my 
feel for the way things work.  I'm ok with the way this works.  :  )
-- 
Dennis M. linux user #180842

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