On Thu, Dec 24 2015,The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: >> >> [snipped 32 lines] > > This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that > you've snipped at all (except maybe by leaving a blank line in between > the quoted bits where the snip was), much less the number of snipped > lines.
oh, that's a feature of Gnus mail client that I enabled,nothing else. I believe the custom was to use something like [...] [snipped 19 lines] >> you mean, having my name after the signature with the above >> correction, right? > > Not quite; as you've written it, your name _is_ the signature. > > The '-- ' is not technically part of the signature; it's the signature > _delimiter_, i.e., the thing which sits between the signature and the > rest of the message. As such, it has to be the very first line of the > signature block. (In practice it will usually be included in the > signature file, but that's an implementation detail.) Right, thanks for that. sivaram --
