[pmmail-list] Signatures - feature request

[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:22:34 +1100 (EDT), Rod... Whitworth wrote:

>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.....

My sigs all have it, it is covered in the son-of-RFC1036 that relates
to Usenet formats. The Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval (GNKSA) for
newsreaders *requires* that the reader removes the sig when replying to
avoid growth of articles to 32+ sigs at the end (yes I have seen a
few).


-- 
Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
                                      'Even Deeper' by Nine Inch Nails



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