Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 12 November 2006 14:39, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2006-11-12 at 16:14 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > > <newline>
> > > --<space>
> > > <newline>
> > >
> > > That way traditional and other well-behaving mail clients can
> > > automagically strip the signature in a reply.
> >
> > Very interesting. With Seamonkey, the double-dash is automatically
> > inserted above the signature file. I had to figure this out the hard
> > way, because the relevant user preferences are documented nowhere on any
> > mozilla website, and there is nothing in the application help files
> > discussing it.
>
> That's what happens when programmers write the docs - it's one of those
> things considered as "known", I guess.

That's probably because it has been tribal knowledge for years on Usenet in 
those clients as well. (Of course MS OE doesn't seem to understand it. :)

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