Use of -- in signatures

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From: Gary Priest
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:00

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I've recently had someone ask me to stop POPwatch prefixing the signature
file with <CRLF>--<CRLF>

I'm reasonably happy to do this, but can someone tell me what the
standards/rules are for this? It was my understanding that all sigs should
be prefixed with the above, that way programs can truncate any sigs or
binaries etc. when you reply to an email/article.

I know Oasis2, Oasis1.3 (although it uses __ in error), and I'm guessing
NOS all prefix the sig with this. NEWSie doesn't. Turnpike on the PC does.

POPwatch only acts this way when sending from NEWSie, because it has to
append the signature to the end before sending email. All other POPwatch
formats will be unaffected.
 
Anybody got any ideas as to what is correct?

Regards,
Gary


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Date: 1998/02/02
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