On 2011-04-13 11:31, mike wilson wrote:

that's exactly it; two hyphens is a standard (actually borrowed from
Usenet) to denote a signature block; Dan combined top-posting with a
signature line, which put the entire quoted material into the signature
area; Ann's email client is trying to be efficient by stripping what it
thinks are signatures when quoting for replies


I had this (at the time) baffling behaviour with NS7.x some years ago.

That's also one of the original arguments against "top posting", for what it's worth.

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