JT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>> 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 :)
I don't believe it is; neither "--" nor the string "signature" appear
anywhere in RFC 1036. It is mentioned in Son-of-RFC-1036, but that was at
most an Internet Draft, never an RFC.
It's mentioned in passing in the current USEFOR draft and in RFC 2646
(text/plain; format=flowed specification).
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
