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Re: separator for .signature?

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From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 1990 02:10
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In article <RSM.90Nov30170514@coral.math.arizona.edu> rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) writes:
>It's traditional in some quarters, when sending a E-mail message or
>posting a news article, to precede the signature (especially if
>included from a .signature file) by the string
>
>	"-- \n"
>
If you skip the space that's an enclosure-part separator (which would
be used by some programs that no how to de-digestify digests).

>If the story is true, is there any mail- or news-reading software
>still out there that has this feature?  If not, is there any point in
>maintaining the old signature separator, or should it be considered
>obsolete?
If it's a valid separator for a new enclosure then the mail app
we're writing will treat your .sig as separate from the rest of
the message.

						-kee
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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.misc,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: separator for .signature?
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.021052.24615@alphalpha.com>
Date: 2 Dec 90 02:10:52 GMT
References: <RSM.90Nov30170514@coral.math.arizona.edu>
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