Re: Thunderbird

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:26:04 +0100
Message-ID: <cofiji$bud$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

Niall Litchfield wrote:
> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>

>>I'm not sure it's a bug, really. It simply means that if people post
>>where Netiquette suggests they should (at the bottom), any reply you

>
> add
>

>>  will not include their signature. Eminently sensible, if you ask

>
> me.

It looks lik eit isn't indeed; from the mozillaZine: <quote>
When I receive a plain text message with a properly separated signature (dash-dash-space) TB strips the signature when quoting the original message in a reply. This is as expected. </quote>
Point is - I haven't seen is documented (yet) - will keep looking.

>

>>It's top posting that stuffs that up... and unfortunately, that's

>
> true
>

>>of Jonathan's sensible 'see below' top posting as well as the less
>>sensible 'stick everything at the top' variety.

>
>
> I'm not sure that I agree that cutting text based on characters in the
> text, is an "eminently sensible" idea. If the placing of a signature
> were some sort of agreed standard rather than a social convention I
> might agree - one could then argue that it wasn't a bug, the original
> message would be at fault. Cutting text because the person who posted
> it was used to different social conventions in related mediums and
> transferred that knowledge across seems to be unexpected behaviour of
> the newsreader to me.
>
> I don't like top-posting, but a program that chomps on messages that
> are top-posted needs work IMO.
>
> Niall
>
> p.s. As I don't have Thunderbird installed then this is clearly all
> predicated on an assumption that the program removes all text following
> a pair of hyphens - including the hyphens themselves.
>

Well, I have, and T'bird distinguishes a signature by displaying it in dark-grey, whereas text is displayed in black.
I have tested this on some earlier posts, made by me, using Netscape 7 (which seems to have a code base in common: Gecko).

As above: expected behaviour...

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Mon Nov 29 2004 - 10:26:04 CST