Re: [Evolution] Various Details

[David Guertin <guertin middlebury edu>]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 11:09, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> > In Evolution, when I top-post to a thread, the signature gets put at the
> > very bottom, after potentially several pages of other people's writing.
> > In Outlook, the signature gets put immediately after my text. I think
> > this is what Jeremy was referring to, as it's been an annoyance for me
> > when I use Evolution for work.
>
> uhm, but then when someone replies to his message, the mailer would
> strip his signature and everything afetr it, completely wiping out any
> previous conversation. This is a Bad Thing (tm).

I'm not following. The mailer doesn't need to strip anything. The .sig
is left right in place, like this top-posting example:

------ example 1 --------

This is a second reply.

Moe

Moe's signature

> This is the first reply.

> Curly

> Curly's signature

> > This is the original message.

> > Larry

> > Larry's signature

------ end example 1 --------

The way Evolution currently does it is:

------ example 2 --------

This is a second reply.

Moe

> This is the first reply.

> Curly

> > This is the original message.

> > Larry

> > Larry's signature

> Curly's signature

Moe's signature
------ end example 2 --------

If I'm replying to a long thread, no one will see my signature unless
they scroll all the way down to the bottom, which they naturally won't.

Dave