Signatures on Top

"Signature" should be at the bottom of whatever you type. Everybody agrees to this. But when people do a Top Posting, there comes a debate of where you should attach your signature. The standard says the signature should remain in the bottom of the mail only. Evolution is (! was) also following this. So is GMail.

But out there are certain broken mail-clients that allow user to put signatures on top of the quoted message. Since, you don't want your client to be ditched by a certain segment (and a big segment :( ), you end-up providing configure option to spoil yourself.



I implemented support for keeping signature on top of one's replies. The above shows the way the signatures will appear. The user-configurable option is :




Minimizing Damage

Can something be done to minimize the damage ?

I tried what I can.

1) The RFC says two "-" symbols followed by a white-space or new-lines marks the beginning of a signature. So I substituted one "-" with a blank space.

2) I added "Not Recommended" after the user-configurable option.

P.S: The arguments of top vs bottom posting is an interesting read.