Re: Use of -- in signatures

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From: Pascal Ricard
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 00:00

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Hello,

  in article <6b6jag$rrj$1@news.stortek.com>
  Nicholas Bales wrote:

> The correct string is <CRLF>-- <CRLF>, that is <dash><dash><SPACE>. 

Yes, this is the rule "de facto" (not in any RFC afaik).

> Maybe you can just add this manually to your sig file, so that whatever your 
> newsreader inserts, at least your sig will not be quoted, which is the main 
> purpose of all this after all.

I have to do this with Newsie (used by it's own) as it does not append the 
string itself. There is no problem with Okami nor with FiST/Led ;-)
(I don't use the sig feature with Popwatch)

-- 
Pascal, surfing the web on his Falcon...

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