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Re: "-- " as a signature delimiter

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From: Russell Schulz
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:50
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mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:

> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> 
>> if some programs are written to recognize it as a signature delimiter, why 
>> not have Waffle insert it automatically, in place of the blank line that
> 
> Auhhh...Waffle does if you have it in your sig or mailsig files.
> 
> --

(note the "--\n" above)

trivia: rusnews checks if the first line of the sig file is "-- \n" - if
not, it puts one there for you; then it just appends the rest of the sig.
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c
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From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
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Subject: Re: "-- " as a signature delimiter
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 08:50:37 MST
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