Saturday, November 01, 2003, Thomas Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. Where do you set this option in v1.62? Thanks in advance Using The Bat! 1.62r Under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
