On 9 Jan 00, at 9:15, Lou McIntosh wrote:

> Elsewhere, Bernie Cosell writes:
> >But as for signatures, would just filtering off after "--<space>" be 
> >sufficient, or is that not widely-enough accepted as a "my .sig begins 
> >here" convention..

>  If you do that, you are assured of missing almost all of my
> very-occasional posts, because I use space-doubledash-space in the middle
> of my message text to signify a pause or a gasp or a parenthetical phrase
> or a lapse of memory -- um, where was I?

I think that the usual convention requires that the '-- ' occur as a line 
all by itself.  That is, the flag is "<NL>--<space><NL>".

OTOH, I can't remember where I _saw_ that as a 'standard' for introducing 
a signature...  Must be something left over from the ancient days...  [I 
guess that the 'modern' .sig is a MIME section with one of those blasted 
.vcf files...]

  /Bernie\
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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers
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