[pmmail-list] Signatures - feature request

[Rod... Whitworth]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:53:15 -0400, PMMail OS/2 Support wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:07:47 -0500 (EST), Bruce Francis wrote:
>
>>Why don't you set up a "Canned Reply" to match your signature(s), turn off
>>the signatures, and put it right where you want to .....    like this:
>
>This is a bad idea because the "Internet convention" is that the
>beginning of a signature is denoted by a line which contains exactly
>two dashes followed by one whitespace. Therefore some people's email
>clients would register *everything* after your signature as part of
>your signature.
>
>This makes no difference for PMMail but it might for some other
>clients (?)

This "convention" is not a part of <any> RFC that I have (RFC644 to RFC3166) 
referring to email. If any MUA depends on it that is a broken puppy.

In fact I think yours is the only sig I have noticed it in.....

~|^

In the beginning was The Word
and The Word was Content-type: text/plain
The Word of Rod.




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