[CMake] signature separator

Rolf Eike Beer eike at sf-mail.de
Wed Sep 4 07:35:08 EDT 2013


Am 04.09.2013 11:47, schrieb Yngve Inntjore Levinsen:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just noticed in Thunderbird (not sure how general this is), 
> signatures
> are marked with "-- " (ie two dashes AND a space). The "powered by
> kitware" signature is appended with only two dashes. Would it be
> possible to request that you mark it with an extra space? Or is this
> just a specific problem/bug with Thunderbird? Or perhaps even something
> configurable?
> 
> A quick search on the web reveals to me that this is probably some kind
> of Usenet definition (I have no knowledge in the matter, just noticed
> the dashes are there):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block#Signatures_in_Usenet_postings
> 
> Benefit is that signature will be greyed out when I read the messages,
> and signature is automatically removed when replying.
> 
> The same request applies to the developers mailing list.

No, and this seems to be a problem with mailman. At least that is what I 
was told when I brought up the topic a while ago and the Kitware guys 
tried to solve it. Sadly the signature became even larger since then :/

Eike


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