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

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From: spal... Nick Spalding
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00

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Ron Hunsinger wrote:

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

There is no standard in the sense that you MUST do it, but it (and
AFAIK only it) is recognised by many news and mail readers, generally
as a means of suppressing either the display of sigs and/or of
preventing them being included in a response.
-- 
Nick Spalding

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