stuart noble wrote:

Is there a good reason why Mike's replies form part of his signature?
Something's not working well. ISTR this has been raised before? Jolly
annoying anyway

No. Mike uses Windows Live Mail and doesn't know how, or can't be
bothered, to manually trim the .sig (including the '-- ' separator) of
the person to whom he's replying, so his reply is below their unsnipped
..sig.

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Chris