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

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From: Marco S Hyman
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 00:00

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sla...@hearsay.demon.junkguard.co.uk (Simon Slavin) writes:

> 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'.

Just a guess, but I'd probably blame Larry Wall and rn.  Or maybe
it pre-dated that. I don't remember what earlier software did...

// marc

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