On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> I think that the usual convention requires that the '-- ' occur as a line 
> all by itself.  That is, the flag is "<NL>--<space><NL>".

Yes, that is the usual convention.

> 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...]

Actually, it's mentioned (in passing) in an RFC about usenet messages.  It
is not called out as a standard for email anywhere (yes, I went and looked
:)

--JT

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