Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

[John Pettigrew <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous message, Tom Nielsen wrote:

> Convention and the "business world" seem to be 2 different things

Indeed - in the business world (i.e. in intranets, where bandwidth isn't
usually an issue) it is common to keep the whole of the thread in all
messages related to it. (This is still silly, because people ought to be
archiving all important correspondence, but hey!)

However, this is also why putting the sig above quoted material but below
the reply (as you originally asked) is a Bad Idea. As I said, many mail
progs will not quote anything below a sig separator, so if you put your sig
above the quoted material then most people's emailers will snip it when they
reply to you - losing what you originally seemed to want (the perpetual
quoting of all messages). If you don't want to keep all the previous replies
at the bottom, then don't quote them yourself  :-)

> But if you notice, my signature appears at the bottom of this email.
> When I use outlook, it appears under my current entry. Am I doing
> something wrong?

No, you're currently doing something right  :-)

Outlook will by default quote all the sigs as well, which just makes the
perpetually quoted messages even longer and harder to parse when you read
them.

HTH

John
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