Hello Michael, On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:01:27 -0700 GMT (01/11/2003, 23:01 +0700 GMT), Michael S. Greenbaum wrote:
> I've never heard of the signature delimiter you describe above. Is > this a custom or requirement for The Bat mailing list? It's an internet standard adopted by TB. If you use the sig delimiter, everything below it will be cut off in a reply. There are other advantages if you use the rich-text viewer in TB. > As it happens, with my "normal" signature (which I didn't use for the > email I sent with my question but which I have included below), I do > have a double dash after my name and before my company information. It > was done originally for aesthetic purposes, not for the reason you > describe. It's dash-dash-space-enter, not just double-dash. > However, it seems inappropriate, to me, to put the double dash > *before* my name because then it separates my name from what I've > written, and that interrupts the flow of the correspondence. It's like > signing one's name on a separate sheet of paper when writing something > by hand. There are two different philosophies about the sig delimiter. One is to set it below your name, and this comes from the usenet: some clients have the option to not show what is below it. TB can be set that way, too. The other school (to which I subscribe) says that the sig delimiter should be above your name, because I don't want to quote it when I reply. > Also, while I can understand wanting to get rid of the "commercial > messages" many people (including me) use in their email, what's the > purpose of stripping out the sender's name? It save having to delete the whole stuff: > Mike > -- > JANUS BOOKS, LTD. > Post Office Box 40787 > Tucson, AZ 85717 > Phone: 520-881-8192; toll-free voice-mail: 800-986-1165 > Fax: 815-333-2938 > http://janusbooks.com > Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and PayPal accepted. > Member: IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) > ________________________________________________ > Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: > http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. The only person getting his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.01.7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
