Comment 3 for bug 266269

I understand the issue and I could easily implement this, but I won't. This is only one part of a larger problem which is that top posting with full quoting makes a mess on email discussion lists.

The main reason I won't change this behavior is there are likely existing lists that don't want the information in the footer to be treated as a sig. With current behavior, the list owner has the ability to make the footer a sig if desired, and to not make it a sig if not desired.

This would still be the case if I implemented this by just adding the "-- " line to DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER in Defaults.py, but there are multiple reasons why I wouldn't do it that way. I would do it in the code that adds the footer and only when adding the footer to the message body and not as a separate MIME part and only when the body does not already contain a "-- " line, but this would preclude the list owner making the footer not a sig.