[kde-linux] Am I Alone?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 October 2009 00:42:05 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
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.
> 
> Your message (the one I am replying to) is a MIME multipart message,
> and the mailing list tagline is in a separate part from your message,
> so your signature delimiter doesn't (and shouldn't?) affect it. If you
> had sent a simple plain-text email it would probably not get quoted
> like that. You can try it on this message, which should hopefully be
> in plain text :)
> 
Although there have been hiccups when a kdepim update has switched on html 
without my knowledge, I do normally send plain text messages.  In fact I think 
the message you refer to is plain text - at least I can't see anything that 
suggests that it isn't.  My gpg signature on messages means that they are 
always reported as MIME.multipart.

Anne
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