Re: author of post and signature problems

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

David Brown <gnus@davidb.org> writes:

> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>
>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>> well i've used the same sig for years and i have no trouble posting with
>> it on the other news groups (in fact, the emacs.help group) with
>> claws-mail.
>>
>> so i'm inclined to think this is resolvable within gnus.
>>
>>                                       ... with you on your journey
>> Towards Freedom
>> http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website)
>> Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's
>
> If this is your signature, the probably is probably that gnus is
> considering your entire post to be the signature.

I think Prad removed the "-- " or else he couldnt post with the sig.

>
> Convention has the signature start with a line containing two hyphens, a
> space, and a newline.  Gnus searches for this when scanning for the
> signature.
>
> Your signature has no separator, so it has no way of finding it.  It
> also means that the signature won't be visually distinguished by clients
> that have that capability.
>
> David