From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Don't quote signature (was: Re: GNKSA and Gnus)
Date: 15 Jan 1998 14:55:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rj7m81suxr.fsf@zuse.+dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stig Sandbeck Mathisen's message of 15 Jan 1998 09:52:20 +0100
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@online.no> writes:
> Why not just make it a possibility for the user to set a variable to
> t, nil or ask (or something), so the user can decide for himself if he
> wants the sig or not in the reply?
Because there are already too many options. There is already a
perfectly good way to quote the signature in the rare cases you would
want that, namely manual cut and paste from the article buffer. Why
introduce another?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-15 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <199712280107.UAA02498@mail.interpath.net>
1998-01-05 19:54 ` GNKSA and Gnus Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-05 20:31 ` Russ Allbery
1998-01-05 21:29 ` Selective quoting (was: Re: GNKSA and Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-12 22:15 ` GNKSA and Gnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:45 ` Russ Allbery
1998-02-02 18:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-01-13 15:58 ` PATCH: Don't quote signature (was: Re: GNKSA and Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-14 23:57 ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
1998-01-15 0:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-01-15 8:52 ` Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
1998-01-15 13:55 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
1998-01-15 14:16 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-15 14:42 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-15 14:49 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-15 15:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-18 13:16 ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
1998-02-08 15:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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