[Coco] Moratorium on using double-dash?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 05 December 2013 10:07:37 Louis Ciotti did opine:

> The "double dash space" is supposed to represent the start of the
> signature block.  So in my opinion Thunderbird is doing the correct
> thing, and all the other clients are not.

No, more properly \n-- \n, eg all 5 characters are the search target, a 
simple dash dash space, because it doesn't have the surrounding newlines 
should just be more text and ignored.

> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:
> > Ok, I know I've complained about this before; I don't really expect
> > this to go anywhere, I'm just venting, I guess.
> > 
> > Does anyone else on here use Thunderbird and get the list as a digest?
> > 
> > When I do a reply to the digest, anything after a "double-dash" gets
> > turned "grey" (though something else turns it back to "normal") - and
> > any of the messages after that point aren't a part of the reply.
> > Thus, I can't delete the portion I want, etc. to get what I do want
> > (because inevitably, it's after the double-dash.
> > 
> > There's been a bug fix request submitted to the TB team; that was
> > years ago, though - nothing has been done.
> > 
> > If you notice, I'm avoiding using it here in this "rant"; I try to do
> > so for this and other lists I am on (admittedly, not many nowadays).
> > Maybe I should change my subscribed email on this list to my virtual
> > host, then use that server to process these digests and remove the
> > double-dashes then forward them on...
> > 
> > Seems like a lot of work; I just don't understand why Thunderbird
> > seems to be the only mail client that interprets a double-dash symbol
> > this way...
> > 
> > bah.
> > 
> > Andrew L. Ayers
> > Glendale, Arizona
> > http://www.phoenixgarage.org/
> > 
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