Re: Garmin Etrex Legend USA/UK

From: Dominic Sexton ({d-sep03}_at_dscs.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:47:58 +0000

In article <41fa6f6d$0$34310$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>, ah
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> writes
>"Dave Patton" <spam@trap.invalid> wrote in message
>news:Xns95EC58F8C6DA0mrzaphoddirectcaold@24.71.223.159...
>> "ah" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> news:41fa0827$0$33683$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net:
>>
>>>> Use a proper signature delimiter, which consists of
>>>> "-- ", without the quotes, on a line by itself.
>>>
>>> I am testing this in this posting. Hope it works.
>>
>> Actually, you didn't use it in "this posting",
>> but in your postings that follow this, you
>> don't have it "quite right".
>> What you have:
>> --
>> What you should have:
>> --
>> The difference is that you are missing the
>> space after the two dashes: "-- " :-)
>
>It did not work because I had tried to do it automatically by Tools Options
>Signatures and forgot ton detick don't add signatures to replies and
>forward.
>
>The automatic signature comes at the beginning of the posting and you asked
>me to avoid writing my reply there.

Yes, that is a bug in Outlook Express - sadly it puts the signature and
the sig separator in the wrong place.

You can read more about it and download a fix from:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

>
>What is the use of a space after the 2 dashes? Nobody can see it as it is
>transparent!

It is meant to be invisible. It is there as a way for programs to
automatically recognise where the signature begins. It was chosen a
something that people would be unlikely to put in an email or a news
message. Some people might want to have a line with just two dashes on
it but it is unlikely that people would want two dashes followed by a
space unless there was a specific purpose for it - such as this.

Many programs that recognise the correct sig separator will not quote
any text that comes after the separator. This is usually a good thing as
quoting the signature in a reply usually has no purpose. If the sig
separator appears in Outlook Express's default location (before the
quoted text) the quoted text would be stripped in a subsequent reply.
Fortunately Microsoft have thought of that and broken the sig sep by
removing the trailing space so it doesn't work anyway! 

-- 
Dominic Sexton

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