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...]
I'm curious about the use of "--" if anyone has any ideas. I know it
predates MIME although MIME certainly reinforces it. Majordomo, one of
the older but not the oldest list management application has always used
it as a mark to signify "stop processing", but I know it predates it
also.
As far as VCF files go, I can tolerate those. At least I can do things
with that data. The ones I consider garbage are "ms-tnef". Guess who
propogated that trash?!
Jim
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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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