Re: email signatures

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Brian Brazil (<bbrazil@netsoc.tcd.ie>) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:31:17AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote:
>> Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03:
>>> For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a 
>>> "-- " (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See 
>>> my signature for an example. 
>>> 
>>> See also: http://www.newbie.org/
>>> 
>>> - --
>>>  .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
>>> : :'  :
>>> `. `'`     proud Debian admin and user
>>>   `-       Debian.  Because it *must* work.  debian.org  
>>>   aboutdebian.com
>> 
>> Errh, your sig starts with "- -- \n". Bad example. Go fix it.
> 
> Renders fine for me. Mutt 1.4i, Solairs 8
> 
> Must be your MUA. Go fix it :-)

I think it is because of the GPG signature. When signing a message, the
signature delimiter is changed from "-- \n" to "- -- \n". Probably mutt
is clever enough to change it back.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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