A couple of weeks ago somebody took it upon themselves to make a snide comment about the signature I'm currently using.
A number of other people have sigs which reflect personal taste or political preference.
Despite the longstanding Internet tradition that what somebody uses as his sig is a private matter provided that it is not offensive, I'd like to suggest one thing in the context of this forum: it is not a good place to put FPC/Lazarus version number and OS identification in the context of a question or announcement.
The problem is that while Usenet (plus mailing lists etc.) stores the sig as part of the message at the time it's created, the SMF forum software uses the user's settings at the time a posting is displayed. Look at this as an example:
I'm creating a program already quite large, so I used the time function successfully, the other day but always within the program I used the time and now I no longer restitute result! But if I open a new project and try to run the time it works! Who can explain why?
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Win10, Ubuntu and Mac
Lazarus: 2.1.0
FPC: 3.3.1
The message is dated 2010, but the forum software tries to convince us that Windows 10 is relevant. Really?
While this might be great fun on a day-by-day basis, it is worse than useless when encouraging a tyro to look for existing discussion of his problem, either using the Forum's own search facility or via Google.
So please: when people give FPC version etc. in the context of a problem they should be encouraged to put it in the body of a posting, not as boilerplate in their sig. Or if they do put something like that in their sig, it should have an "As of..." date unless obviously unnecessary.
MarkMLl