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"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 2004-03-25, Matthew Joyce penned:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an
>> email, is it '--' before the appendage ?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>
> The polite way to do it is not at all.  I've yet to see a huge honkin'
> signature that was actually necessary/productive.

Legal disclaimers are legally questionable: If an email is only
intended for one person, then it should be encrypted with PGP, *NOT*
postpended with some big block of legalese.  Criminals don't care
about the law (duh!).

> The convention is actually '-- '; I'm not clear if there must be a
> newline thereafter.  

Yes.  All text should end with newline EOF anyway.

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