Double dash ending the digest

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

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