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Article #42130Re: Use of -- in signatures
From: Clair Shaw
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <Ensv0o.o4F@suse.modem.stud.uni-hannover.de>, Peter Rottengatter <perot@suse.modem.stud.uni-hannover.de> writes >In article <4696410_000003_OASIS_NEWS@the-gap.demon.co.uk>, > gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk (Gary Priest) writes: > >> 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 > >I understand putting the -- into the signature is one's own decision. So >it's probably better to not do it automatically, as everybody can easily >put it into the signature file. > >I occasionly remove the -- from my signature in the posting if I refer to >the signature in the message, to make sure nobody wants to follow the >reference to an already cut away footer. > > >Cheers Peter if you put a -- (line line, space) in an email in a line of its own, in some software (on the PC) everything is cut underneath it when you reply. -- so if you reply to this message using Turnpike, this line will be cut away. -- Clair Shaw (aka. CDS) | Clair@Shaw1.demon.co.uk | Happy valentines ICQ: 1043359 | day! WWW: www.shaw1.demon.co.uk|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111a55,4b9f78434c27c9f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid111a55,public X-Google-Thread: 112f4b,4b9f78434c27c9f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f4b,public From: Clair Shaw <Clair@shaw1.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Use of -- in signatures Date: 1998/02/06 Message-ID: <jQVUyEAPB220Qw1n@shaw1.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 322779471 References: <4696410_000003_OASIS_NEWS@the-gap.demon.co.uk> <Ensv0o.o4F@suse.modem.stud.uni-hannover.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Clair Shaw <Clair@Shaw1.demon.co.uk> Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: shaw1.demon.co.uk [194.222.11.177] Organization: none Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,demon.ip.support.atari