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Gmail now supports multiple rich-text signatures. However it prepends "--" before the signature. Is there a way to disable this?

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The double-dash before the signature block is a long-standing standard in e-mail. – Al Everett Jul 9 '10 at 17:06
I wouldn't say long standing I would say antiquated. Look at most professional signature blocks from large companies, double-dash is not included. – drye Jul 9 '10 at 17:47
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And I would suggest they're doing it wrong. For one, that convention allows e-mail clients to not included the signature block when quoting for a reply. – Al Everett Jul 9 '10 at 18:09
Interesting. They seem to have another way of detecting signatures and graying them. If you don't enable the Labs feature as Brian suggested than your signature gets turned into the purplish quoted text with the rest of the previous text... right or wrong, I like what the labs feature does better. – drye Jul 9 '10 at 18:22

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There is an extension in labs for this (amongst some other tweaks).

Settings -> Labs -> Signature tweaks

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Thank you! "Signature tweaks by Keith C and Dave C Places your signature before the quoted text in a reply, and removes the "--" line that appears before signatures." – drye Jul 9 '10 at 17:07
@drye: I was very pleased when I found it too :) – Brian R. Bondy Jul 9 '10 at 17:07

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