Re: [Evolution] Various Details

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:53 -0400, David Guertin wrote:
> Hmm. I'm sorry if I'm beating a dead horse, but I'm still puzzled. As
> you can see, Evolution does not do what you describe. (Or is "My
> Signature" below not an actual Evolution-added signature? Did you just
> type that in?) I haven't noticed it stripping any messages I've replied
> to at work, either.

most mailers would. I forgot I added logic to Evolution a while back to
look for the last "signature looking thing" and only strip that out.

So lets try this.. (might work, might not - signature stripping is
broken in 1.5 so I can't really test)

-- 
My Signature

> For that matter, in my pre-Evolution days I don't think Emacs Gnus ever
> stripped messages, either. FWIW, M$ Outlook also doesn't.
>
> Anyway, now that we've got a good long top-posted thread going here,
> look how far away from my writing you find my signature. That's what I
> find a little awkward.
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 12:02, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Here's a real-world example. Here I am top-posting away...
> >
> > if my signature is immediately after my text but before the text I'm
> > replying to, then when you go to reply to my message, your mailer will
> > strip everything starting at my signature. Thus your reply will not
> > contain any of the past drama of the thread.
> >
> > -- 
> > My Signature
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 11:49 -0400, David Guertin wrote:
> > > 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
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> David Guertin
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