Re: [Evolution] Feature request: Signatures without '--'

["R. W. Reese" <aguador openmailbox org>]

El 2016-07-20 18:29, Emre Erenoglu escribió:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:07 PM, bg <bg fdi us> wrote:
>
> This looks like the "html is unnecessary in emails" discussion.

No, quite the contrary. This is saying there is a reason for those 
characters that follows a standard for e-mails that is not about the 
"look" of the message (my apologies for missing the aesthetic 
objections), but about the processing of them.

As I suggested in a prior reply, the information in what we call the 
"signature" is the equivalent of the inside return address of a letter 
or, if you like, a printed letter head. The message is "signed" 
separately - in the original of your message with your first name, not 
with a signature. Looked at from that perspective I cannot understand 
what the objection is. It seems to me nice to have the separation.

In writing this I am also reminded of those e-mails where the 
"signature" includes a company logo, frequently to the left of the name 
and contact information. That is clearly *not* a way of signing your 
message, in part because it separates your name from the closing. Why is 
this less objectionable than the three characters about which we are 
writing? And why are three characters (one non-printing) that also serve 
visually to separate the closing from the return/inside address so 
objectionable? I frankly find it quite appropriate, but in any event 
rather inobtrusive.

Returning to the matter of look: the majority of e-mails I deal with 
happen to be HTML, but HTML or plain text, the bigger problem, including 
from those communicating for business purposes, comes from those who 
cannot be bothered to space their paragraphs or generally format the 
message in a way that makes it inviting to read (or, at times, readily 
understandable). When dealing with a lot of e-mails, *that* is 
problematic. However, two printed characters below someone's name goes 
virtually unnoticed.

Obviously aesthetic arguments will get us no where as this turns into a 
tempest in a teapot. At the end of the day, there is nothing about those 
characters that I can see disqualifies Evo in the business world. When 
push comes to shove those who object to them can override them, those 
who understand them will leave them (or even add them in systems like 
Outlook or some web-based e-mails).