Subject: Re: Signature files at bottom

From: Mr Kevin Yeung <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 16:14:30 +0800 (HKT)

On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, Steven Feinholz wrote:

> 2) When Forwarding an email to another destination, the signature
>    file gets placed BEFORE the included text, instead of at the
>    bottom of the entire email message.

This doesn't sound to be a bug to me because you may want to write a 
short note to your recipient so the whole message looks like this:

<headers>
<short notes, saying Hi and telling him/her you're forwarding something>
<your signature>
<forwarded message follows>

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Kevin Yeung
email: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Frank Yao)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 17:15:57 GMT

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950131161053.13826K-100000@hostsw7>,
Steven Feinholz <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I have set the signature-at-bottom in my Configuration Setup and
>have experienced the following:
>
>1) When Replying to an email message while including the original
>   text, the signature file gets appended to the end of the
>   email.
>
>Is this the normal operation of "signature-at-bottom" or is this
>a bug?

I would say it is.  When you are replying to e-mail, the quoted stuff
is considered to be part of your message, and hence the bottom of the
message is at the end of the quoted text.  However, when you are
forwarding stuff, your message is what you add to clarify things, and
usually implies that you are not making changes to the message being
forwarded, so your message ends before the included text.

- frank

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