On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Which brings up another point. We often tell newbies about
> > html, but rarely do I see any mention of how to handle sigs.
> > If someone leaves a sig in place and replies below, it is
> > impossible to reply correctly, as Carroll said, because
> > everything below the '--' line disappears.
> Hmm, this sounds like bad design in kmail rather than a breach of
> etiquette. It is not difficult to imagine times when you would
> want to reply and include the original writer's sig. If anything,
> kmail should offer the option of turning off automatic deletion
> of the sig, or allow the user to select the text from the
> original to be included in the reply (select text, click Reply).
> Sylpheed offers both options.
>
> How do other MUA's handle sigs in a reply? What else are people
> using--kmail, sylpheed, evolution . . .?
>
> Todd
Notice before my sig the two hyphens. This is not bad design,
it's a long time internet standard, that the sig is proceeded by
the hyphens so that sig's are ignored by servers. If your mail
reader includes sigs in replys, that are properly separated from
the mesg body by the hyphens, then it's your email client that has
a bad design. Kmail properly and automatically adds the hyphens
before the sig.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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