Except you place your signature at the wrong location. Signatures ALWAYS go
at the bottom of your post regardless of whether you like to top- or bottom-
post. There is only the start-of-signature delimiter line ("-- \n") aka
sigdash line. There is no end-of-signature delimiter. That means
EVERYTHING after the sigdash becomes part of your *signature*. Even many
MVPs cannot seem to figure out this simple logic in how signatures work.
Typically those that place the signature at the top (after their top-posted
addition) are using OE which, in the past, improperly positioned the sigdash
line (after they got around to creating a valid one) after the top-posted
content rather than at the bottom.
This is not a "OE is a bad newsreader" argument. It takes but 2 brain cells
to cogitate on the use of the sigstart delimiter and realizing there is no
matching sigend delimiter to realize that everything past the sigstart line
is, gee, all part of a signature. As of SP-2 for Windows XP, a registry
edit became available for OE where the user can specify whether to top- or
bottom-post and to place the signature at the end. Rare few users ever
bothered to read the release notes for SP-2.
Service Pack 2 for Windows XP introduced registry settings where you can
decide if OE defaults to top- or bottom-posting style and also to where the
signature gets placed (which should ALWAYS be at the end regardless of top-
or bottom-posting style because there is only the start-of-sig delimiter and
no end-of-sig delimiter).
From KB 886340:
in Windows XP PC Tablet Edition 2005"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886340
However, these settings apply to BOTH e-mails and newsgroup posts. OE does
not afford separate style controls for e-mail versus newsgroups regarding
bottom/top posting and sig position. That is why some users that know about
the registry hacks do not use them. They may want to bottom-post for their
newsgroup posts but continue to top-post for their e-mail replies. Since
they use e-mail more often than visit newsgroups, they leave OE configured
to top-post and then choose whether or not to simply reposition the insert
cursor when they begin editing their reply post. However, the signature
should still go at the bottom even for e-mails and it is a separate option.
Top-posting is a style choice but most OE users did not make a choice. They
just use what the client defaults to using. Even if you like top-posting,
that does not preclude you from properly placing your signature at the end;
however, again due to lazy users, most do not know about the option and many
that do simply refuse to enable it. They're too lazy to find out, they are
too lazy to change, they are too lazy (or scared) to make the registry edits.
Users are not alone in being lazy. Many MVPs do not bother to properly
position their signature, too.
In your case, everything past:
--
If you find ...
became part of your *signature*, including the quoted posts.