Re: message.el patch

[Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>]

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>>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au> writes:
 SY> * Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> writes:
 >> I'd like to propose this small change to message.el, useful for
 >> those of us who do not use a signature separator or who use one that
 >> is a little different.

 SY> I'm against this change.  A signature separator should be:

 SY> dash dash space newline

 SY> and nothing else.

Well, I sort of expected this kind of discussion... I guess I should
have known better to post explanations in advance.

Please consider that some people do not use "signatures" as per the
usual usenettish understanding goes, but still want to append a piece of
text at the end of each E-mail, text that depends on posting styles,
etc. -- for all practical reasons: a signature.

Please consider:

a) how I have signed this E-mail,

b) what happens if I want to append something of this kind:

   best regards,
   --Jan

None of these things is possible with the current Gnus. Since I am tired
of manually deleting the extra "-- \n" that Gnus chooses to insert
before my "signatures" (in a loose sense of the word), I propose this
change.

Religious issues aside, I believe there are legitimate reasons to change
the signature separator, especially if you accept that the definition of
a "signature" isn't very clear cut at all.

--J.

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