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On Mon, 2 Feb 98 23:23:56 GMT, gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk (Gary Priest)
wrote:

>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?

I'm reasonably sure but not certain (something is nagging me but I
can't think what) that it is the smtp poster which is responsible for
appending it, so it could be an error to remove it.


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