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

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From: sla... Simon Slavin
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <6anoq6$8a3$1...@news3.tufts.edu>,
kis...@allegro.cs.tufts.edu (Kirk Is) wrote:

> Is the "official" convention that it's dash-dash-space, not 
> just dash-dash?

>From son-of-RFC1036:

# If  a  poster or posting agent does append a signature to an
# article, the signature SHOULD be preceded with  a  delimiter
# line  containing  (only)  two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by
# one blank (ASCII  32).

There's no mention of .sigs in RFC1036 so it sneaked in between
the two.  What I want to know is why it is what it is.  If
Larry Wall made it up (and I may end up emailing him to ask)
I'd like to know where he got that particular string from.  But
I'd prefer to hear speculation and informed opinion from the
group.

Simon.
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From: sla...@hearsay.demon.junkguard.co.uk (Simon Slavin)
Subject: Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?
Date: 1998/01/31
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