On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:42:30 -0300, "Russ Hunt" <h...@stu.ca> 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>. 
>

> 
>> 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/

The signature delimiter is a carryover from the old BBS days (now
about 25 years ago).  It originally flagged systems to show your
signature instead of some BBS's promotional message.

-- 
 JohnW-Mpls
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