Thunderbird bug or feature?

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 06/18/2009 12:30 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> It displays fine when reading the message. the text after "--" is a
> signature, and it's displayed in gray (which is correct). But when I hit
> Reply, the quoted text only goes up to the "--" and doesn't quote
> anything below. In particular, the earlier mail exchange is below the
> signature, and didn't get quoted.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?
> I didn't really pay attention to it before, but it may have always
> worked this way...

It's an annoying feature. TB adds and recognizes the "--" as a signature 
separator.

You can see section 4.3 of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt for some 
background.

- Mike