On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:03:05PM -0500, 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>".
That's right.
> 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...]
I thought the hyphen-hyphen-space convention was mentioned in RFC 1036,
but perhaps I'm thinking of the orphaned son-of-1036 draft. Now I
can't find any official recommendation for signature delimiters. It's
a shame.
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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer
