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Article #124594Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?
From: Louis RAPHAEL
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
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Ron Hunsinger <hns...@sirius.com> 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. 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
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