[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-02-01 Thread Richard Damon
On 2/1/21 3:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Richard Damon writes: > > > It is one of the 'Markdown' codes for a horizontal rule > > But 72 of them? Don't most people use about 5? But if they are using it AS the horizontal rule in a plain text document, it could easily be that long. > > wil

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-02-01 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 10:18:22PM -0500, Richard Damon wrote: > On 1/30/21 9:40 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:22:43AM -0500, Richard Damon wrote: >>> The issue is that the 'footer' separator that was used isn't really >>> a truely distinctive line, just a line with some number

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-02-01 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 07:40:17PM +0100, Thomas Hochstein wrote: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: >> Why did we do that? > > Because it makes sense. The message footer is identical to a signature > in every respect: Ah, no. It is not. > [..] It doesn't matter if such a footer or signature is add

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-02-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Damon writes: > It is one of the 'Markdown' codes for a horizontal rule But 72 of them? Don't most people use about 5? > will occasionally end up with a line like that when documenting an > electrical signal that is always low (at least for a given > example). OK, that's very plaus