On 03-06-2011 00:35, PLO wrote: > Hello Larry, > > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:07:37 -0600 (your time) you said: > >> But, as you pointed out, it does not recognize two sig delimiters in a >> message. > > Actually, I'm afraid you misread something because I didn't point that out. > I pointed out that the list appended a cutline to the end of the message. > The Bat! behaves as you would expect a proper, well developed email client
The Bat behave as YOU would like it to behave.... > to behave and recognises the last signature delimiter in the message as the > signature boundary; that's exactly where it should be! The fact that > Thunderbird behaves differently in this respect doesn't translate to Thunderbird behave like I (and some others ;) would like it to behave > 'Thunderbird is a superior email client'. On the contrary in fact. I'm not questioning superiority ;) > Furthermore, the issue wasn't about whose client was better than the other, > heaven's above, and it really isn't about that now either...and my email > client isn't defective because it does what it is supposed to! > > The real point is that the list subscription information that is appended to > messages does not constitute a signature, and so should therefore not be > appended to messages preceded by a cutline. A simple series of dashes or an > continuous underscore above the list information to separate it would > suffice and wouldn't interfere with the author's signature. As I said, not > the end of the world but... > i googled a bit, and found: http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/signatur.html The question of a proper signature can cause perhaps more arguments than any other single netiquette issue (besides spam). Superficially, and technically the main issues would seem clear: * No more than *four* lines. Occasionally called the "4-line McQuary limit". * Use "-- " as the beginning marker. Unfortunatly there is nothing about having two signatures in one mailmessage... > Please feel free to email me off list if you want to further discuss email > clients, but I don't think a Thunderbird vs The Bat! and everything else is > what this topic is about. Well, I certainly didn't intend it to be about > that. no, but thanks, i'm not really interested in a discussion about email clients, because they should simply do what u users expects from them. > > All the best > thanks... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
