>From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 7, 2007 5:24 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE > >Richard Detwiler wrote: >> James Knott wrote: >>> Incidentally, please do not make your signatures in such a way, that >>> they become part of the replies. In order to send you this reply, >>> without including that offensive material, I had to cut 'n paste into a >>> new reply, after deleting it's entire contents. >>> >> >> Offensive material? I don't recall seeing anything offensive in his >> signature line (and I've deleted the OP's note so I can't go back and >> look at it). >> > >There was a large coloured block about his church. I couldn't do a >normal reply without including it. I had to create a reply, delete >everything and then cut 'n paste portions of the original message, so >that I could reply without including it. > This is what I call excessive. I would would not find the message offensive but there is a way to keep the block from being retransmitted. I do so.
>It's bad enough that some people include such stuff in their messages, >but something else again, when I can't reply without including it. > Looks like it is time for an educational sesssion. If you don't need it or want it stop reading now. Seems like there was a time in the world when the internet did not exist that was because it did not. In that day folks used things called Electronic Bulletin Board systems. One of them was called Spitfire. These EBBS (shortened to be BBS) were connected by a network called FidoNet. They existed around the world and in some cases in countries that had technically banned them. Messages included items called 'Signatures'. They were limited to a maximum of four lines and were denotated by the inclusion of two dashes (-) followed by a space. Most, but not all, mailer systems stripped anything below these characters from any replies. This is STILL TRUE today. I highly recommend the usage of these characters to separate the content of your reply from any other information you wish convey. Thank you. James McKenzie -- This is a mailing list which exists to support users of OpenOffice.org All answers are given by other users who volunteer their time. If you are not subscribed to this mailing list you may not see all the replies to your query. Please reply to [email protected] only and include some indication that you are not subscribed to this list. (eg. "I am not subscribed to this list, please CC: me.") For on-line support see: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
