proper reply format

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Fri Aug 24 17:41:32 EDT 2012


Am 24.08.2012 22:31, schrieb Ethan Furman:
> Just having Willem's name at the top was confusing.  Also, because you
> didn't trim his signature, the rest of your reply looked like a
> signature to Thunderbird (which uses a line of '--' to figure the start
> of signatures).  As you can see, the rest of your post was trimmed away
> as signature lines when I hit Reply.

Almost ;)

The correct signature separator is "\n-- \n". That's a line made up
entirely of dash, dash, space followed by a newline.

Christian





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