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

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From: mul... Richard Shetron
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <6ajn4i$s...@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>,
Louis RAPHAEL  <rap...@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
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>I'd guess that at some point, some popular piece of software
>"recognized" it as such, for purposes of stripping .sigs. I'd check
>into things like LISTSERV. I know that anon.penet.fi used that
>convention, among others. Its fairly natural that it be `-' you could
>argue why two, and not three `-', but I'm not surprised that the dash
>character was used.
>
>Louis

I don't know how long it's been around, but I know it's been around
longer then anon.penet.fi as the wizvax ACS back in the late 80's(?) or
early 90's used it.

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From: mul...@wizvax.wizvax.net (Richard Shetron)
Subject: Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?
Date: 1998/01/28
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