top posting and sig delimiter

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Terry R.

How do you stop the Windows Mail "default" from inserting a sig
delimiter (dash dash space) when top posting?

Thanks,

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No way to stop it that I know of. I'm having to delete it every time.
Same issue exists in WLM.

Gary VanderMolen
 
On 6/25/2007 8:30 PM On a whim, Peter Foldes pounded out on the keyboard
It is there by default. Highlight it and delete if it bothers you
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Bothering me is not the point. A proper newsreader does NOT insert a
delimiter when top posting. And a good newsreader removes everything
below the delimiter.

I don't have anything against people top posting (if that's the norm in
a particular group), but when people top-post AND a delimiter is
inserted, everything below gets removed. That's as bad as people that
don't know how to properly snip, only the replying poster has no control
over it.

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Terry R. said:
On 6/25/2007 8:30 PM On a whim, Peter Foldes pounded out on the keyboard


Bothering me is not the point. A proper newsreader does NOT insert a delimiter when top posting. And a good newsreader removes
everything below the delimiter.

I don't have anything against people top posting (if that's the norm in a particular group), but when people top-post AND a
delimiter is inserted, everything below gets removed.
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It's a definite bug.
Incidentally, I don't think any Microsoft newsreader removes anything below
the delimiter, so I don't know why MS bothers to put it in.
 
On 6/25/2007 11:13 PM On a whim, Gary VanderMolen pounded out on the
keyboard
It's a definite bug.
Incidentally, I don't think any Microsoft newsreader removes anything below
the delimiter, so I don't know why MS bothers to put it in.
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Thanks Gary. I didn't want to call it that without a little research.

And like I said above, "a good newsreader removes everything below the
delimiter". MS uses a delimiter without using what it's designed for.
Go figure.

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Terry R. said:
How do you stop the Windows Mail "default" from inserting a sig delimiter
(dash dash space) when top posting?
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Tools | Options | Advanced
 
Terry R. said:
How do you stop the Windows Mail "default" from inserting a sig delimiter
(dash dash space) when top posting?
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Sorry, I misread.
 
On 6/26/2007 4:51 PM On a whim, Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM pounded out
on the keyboard
Sorry, I misread.
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No problem. For a second there I thought I had missed something too
obvious!

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