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 -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!