[Plone-docs] Double dash ending the digest

[Gunnar P. Vestergaard]

Hello. I have a reason for concern. Now I subscribe to the Plone-docs
mailing list. I subscribe to this mailing list as a daily digest
delivery. About ten messages are brought in this digest. More or less,
actually. That will vary greatly.

I want to bring a subject up which this group may not find relevant. But
I don't know where else to write. Most likely there are developers
attending to the mailing software sending out this mailing list.

When I see the daily digest message from plone-docs mailing list, I want
to reply to some post. Then I hit the Reply button in Mozilla
Thunderbird. I see post 1 to 5 quoted as quoted text. I first thought
that it is just fine. My intention was to delete posts that I do not
reply to and type my reply under the relevant post. In this case, the
delivered message digest originally contained 8 posts. "Fine", I
thought. I wanted to delete posts 1-7 and will reach post 8 that I want
to quote. But suddenly I see that Mozilla Thunderbird only cites posts
1-4 in the Reply window. "What the heck? What happens here?" This is
because when some sender in a single post includes two dashes and a
space, Mozilla Thunderbird sees all the rest of the digest message as
_signature_ that must be ignored. Now I don't mean to oppose this. I
think that the double dash and space should still be preserved as a mark
of signature. But the solution may be for the server to alter the double
dash and space into something else so that a mail app will not disregard
the rest of the message digest because of these multiple posts with
double dashes and space.

So as I said before, this may not be the right group to bring this up.
But I do not know where else to write.

Gunnar Vestergaard
Copenhagen, Denmark