Hi all, > On Thursday, 31 August 2006 22:29, Dave Dodge wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:43:03PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:25:28 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Signature separator should be "-- " instead of "--". > > > > > > Define "proper" please. Why does this matter? > > > > Some mail programs and filtering scripts expect it to be that way. > > Can you point me at examples, or at an I-D, RFC, etc.?
http://rfc.sunsite.dk/rfc/rfc2646.html "4.3. Usenet Signature Convention There is a convention in Usenet news of using "-- " as the separator line between the body and the signature of a message. When generating a Format=Flowed message containing a Usenet-style separator before the signature, the separator line is sent as-is. This is a special case; an (optionally quoted) line consisting of DASH DASH SP is not considered flowed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block "The formatting of the sig block is prescribed somewhat more firmly: it should be displayed as plain text in a fixed-width font (no HTML, images, or other rich text), and must be delimited from the body of the message by a single line consisting of exactly two hyphens, followed by a space, followed by the end of line (i.e., "-- \n"). This latter prescription, which goes by many names, including "sig dashes", "signature cut line", and "sig-marker", allows software to automatically mark or remove the sig block as the receiver desires. A correct delimiter is required for a news posting program to receive the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval." http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa.txt "15) Separate signatures correctly, and don't use excessive ones Posting software SHOULD separate any signature appended to outgoing articles from the main text with a line containing only `-- ' ("dash dash space"). To quote son-of-rfc1036: <<If a poster or posting agent does append a signature to an article, the signature SHOULD be preceded with a delimiter line containing (only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by one blank (ASCII 32). Posting agents SHOULD limit the length of signatures, since verbose excess bordering on abuse is common if no restraint is imposed; 4 lines is a common limit.>>" Patch looks good to me, I'm in favor of applying it. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
