[kde-linux] Am I Alone?

[Dale]

James Tyrer wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>   
>> On Saturday 03 October 2009 12:54:53 James Tyrer wrote:
>>     
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Thursday 01 October 2009 09:51:08 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Note the space after "--" above my signature.  Perhaps it is
>>>>>> being lost in transit, but I am not receiving the space in your
>>>>>> emails so Thunderbird does not see an end of message and copies
>>>>>> everything after your signature when I reply.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I reply from several boxes, but I will investigate settings.  Since
>>>>> this laptop is probably the most common source, I have checked it
>>>>> first by sending a message to myself then using Reply.  KMail
>>>>> strips the signature as expected. Does Thunderbird?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anne
>>>>>           
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> If we are talking about the same thing, it is the mailing list
>>>> software that appears to be at fault here, not Anne.  Again, we may
>>>> be seeing different things so I could be wrong here.  I'm on
>>>> Seamonkey here. Should be similar to Thunderbird are least.
>>>>         
>>> I suspect that then the problem is that she is putting the "-- " after
>>> her signature rather than before it.
>>>
>>>       
>> Definitely not.
>>
>> Anne
>>
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>
> Whatever you say, but this is what happens when I reply to your message.
>
> However, when I reply to my message to the list, everything after and
> including "-- " is not copied into the reply.
>
> It was my understanding that the "-- " was supposed to come before your
> name as in my previous postings.  The fault might be in Thunderbird, or
> it might be something else about your message, but with the "-- " above
> the name it works and with it below the name, it doesn't appear to.  So,
> I am trying this the other way and will see if that is the problem or if
> it is something else.
>
> James Tyrer
>   

I don't know what the difference is but when I hit reply to this
message, everything after the -- is gone.  But with Anne's message, just
the signature is removed and the mailing list part is still there.  This
is odd. 

You both appear to have the same -- but even on the same program it
reacts differently.  < Dale scratches his head >

Dale

:-)  :-)