On 4/30/10 6:42 PM, Russ Hunt wrote: > David E. Ross -- > > Thank you. This is pretty clearly the problem: > >> The webmail.bellaliant.net server is sniffing for "Firefox". This is >> invalid. If sniffing can be justified at all, the site should be >> sniffing for "Gecko". For an explanation of "sniffing", see my >> <http://www.rossde.com/internet/Webdevelopers.html#sniff>. > > I will tell BellAliant that. I'd hope they'd be interested. But of > course the userbase of Seamonkey users is probably pretty small, from > their point of view.
It's not merely SeaMonkey that is affected. There are other browsers based on Gecko. They are all affected. See <http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Sardisson/Gecko_is_Gecko>. >> If anyone says to you ""Why don't you use Internet Explorer, > like >> everybody else?", tell them that about half of those who view the Web >> now use browsers that are NOT Internet Explorer. > > Yep. So what I expect they'll say is, "Why don't you use Firefox, > like most of the people who don't use IE?" But I'll try. > > This, though, I don't understand: > >> Finally, your signature should have the "-- " (dash-dash-space) on a >> separate line without any text. > > I've done my signature like this since about 1988, and I've never had > anybody suggest that (or never noticed anyone except yours with the "- > - " on a separate line. Why? > > -- Russ > > Russ Hunt > Department of English > St. Thomas University > http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/ > RFC 3676 (Section 4.3) describes the use of dash-dash-space on a line by itself as an NNTP convention. Most mail/news clients strip away the signature when quoting for a reply to a newsgroup message, providing the user follows the convention. Many also strip away the signature when quoting for a reply to an E-mail message, which annoys many individuals. As you see above, your signature gets quoted when I reply. That's because you do not follow the convention. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
