From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19276 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Kurz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "-- " for signatures? Date: 27 Nov 1998 22:33:11 +0100 Organization: Core dumped Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157655 10768 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA18763 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:06:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAB20557; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:06:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA08690 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:06:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA18752 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:05:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jupiter.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id HAA16520 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:06:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from shorty@jupiter.rhein-neckar.de) Original-Received: from shorty by jupiter.rhein-neckar.de (Exim 2.05) with local id 0zjVVn-0000wB-00 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:33:11 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://www.rhein-neckar.de/~jupiter Original-Lines: 21 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19276 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19276 Russ Allbery wrote: > Stainless Steel Rat writes: > > "KG" == Kai Grossjohann writes: > > > KG> Where was it again where it is specified that signatures should be > > KG> separated from the rest of the message by a "-- " line? > > > One of the Internet RFCs specifies it... but I cannot for the life of me > > remember which one. > > Are you sure it's an RFC? I thought the only "official" reference was in > Son-of-1036. It's no RfC but it's mentioned in Son-of-RfC1036 and Grandson-of-RfC1036. Christian -- M$: Our software of tomorrow will make sure that on your hardware of tomorrow everything will work at the usual speed. ;-)