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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