Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?

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From: hns... Ron Hunsinger
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <B0F2C4319...@hearsay.demon.co.uk>,
sla...@hearsay.demon.junkguard.co.uk (Simon Slavin) wrote:

> Okay, I know the appropriate documentation (soRFC1036), but what
> caused us to start using that particular line text as a .sig
> separator as opposed to, say '- -', or '++**++' or 'wibble'.

RFC1036 doesn't mention .sig lines. I'm not aware that there is a standard
for this.

-Ron Hunsinger

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