Russ Hunt wrote: > Thirty years of email and I never knew that "-- " was the standard > delimiter. Thank you.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse." :-) (30?) >> I can't imagine how you can trick SeaMonkey into doing it your way >> unless you're manually adding your first name to every message. > > Actually, the signature line in question _is_ added manually; I > change it for various contexts. The rest -- my address -- is the sig > file. And I'm using Pegasus Mail in any case. Perhaps Pegasus expects that you should add the "-- " as the first line *within* in your sig text. I've encountered a few clients like that over the years -- and discarded them. >> As you can see, your inclusion of text on the same line after the >> space prevents my SeaMonkey from recognizing your sig as such, so it >> doesn't automatically snip it when I reply. > > So any time I put "-- " by itself on a line, everything below that is > snipped? Just for kicks, I will manually add a "-- " here. See what happens when you select Reply: -- > At what point in the process? When you select Reply. > Since I don't use a browser as a mail handler, I don't know anyone who does. (not counting webmail, of course.) > I'm curious as to how widespread the convention actually is. It can be > standard without being much known or observed; I've been managing > LISTSERV lists for a long time and I think it's pretty much totally > unknown among my list subscribers. I wouldn't expect many listserv-only users to know about what a sig delimiter is. Those who use USENET however, stand a much better chance to understand. The sig delimiter has been around for decades. What follows should have been snipped by your news client when you selected Reply. If it wasn't, it is a non-standard-conforming tool. >> -- >> War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. >> -- >> Paul B. Gallagher This next appears to be added to Paul's signature, by yourself. >> _______________________________________________ >> support-seamonkey mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey And then here is your signature, added without the proper delimiter. > Russ Hunt > Department of English > St. Thomas University > http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/ The following is my standard signature: -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
