X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d190caba6cbd0744 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Neil Franklin Subject: Re: Deja News appears to be fixed Date: 1999/09/28 Message-ID: <6u3dvyew4a.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 530388130 Sender: neil@chonsp.franklin.ch References: <37DAA282.41B5@iNOdirect.ca> <37DE8359.4154@iNOdirect.ca> <7slso8$ush$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk> <0dHvN47yNILSBMJtAYMwMUpW3qxO@4ax.com> X-Trace: 28 Sep 1999 20:33:19 +0100, dua131221.dialup800-stat.ethz.ch Organization: My own Private Self Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art ppunk@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk) writes: > > On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:39:54 +0100, "Andrew Carpenter" > provoked the following text: > > > >Just looking around Deja for a moment, and noticed that anything under a > >dash-dash-space sig separator is written in a fixed width font. > > > >Could cause other problems though. > > Only if _you_ want to :-) Or if the recipients Newsreader wants to. "newline space space blank newline" is the official sign for "begin of sig block". Various Newsreaders (and Mailers) treat text after it different: Such as showing it in an dimmed colour (as mine does), not auto-quoting it on pressing relpy/followup (as I have seen others do). So putting your message after it screws up readers - Bad idea. BTW: Leaving someone elses -- in an quoted message messes up all your text after it. And putting an quoted message entirely after your -- (this violates temporal arrangement anyway) screws up the entire quote. Both are the sign of an not yet clued up newbie (who may well be an eternal newbie with many years online). -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/