On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:00 am, 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. > > > > > > Hmm, this sounds like bad design in kmail rather than a breach > > > of etiquette. It is not difficult to imagine times when you > > > would want to reply and include the original writer's sig. If > > > anything, kmail should offer the option of turning off > > > automatic deletion of the sig, or allow the user to select the > > > text from > > thehttps://localhost:10000/ > > > > original to be included in the reply (select text, click > > > Reply). Sylpheed offers both options. > > > > > > 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.
No, it's not reading that is a problem, Dennis. However, if you reply to a mail where the previous respondent had left in a sig, kmail would quote up to the first sig divider. Thus, the reply that you were actually replying to is lost. IYSWIM It's hard to demonstrate to you, because kmail automatically trims out the sign, so I can send you an uncut one to show you. Anne
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