* "-- " for signatures?
@ 1998-11-27 19:05 Kai.Grossjohann
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From: Kai.Grossjohann @ 1998-11-27 19:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
(Off-topic alert.)
Where was it again where it is specified that signatures should be
separated from the rest of the message by a "-- " line?
tia,
kai
--
Life is hard and then you die.
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* Re: "-- " for signatures?
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@ 1998-11-27 20:14 ` Russ Allbery
1998-11-27 21:33 ` Christian Kurz
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From: Russ Allbery @ 1998-11-27 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> 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.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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* Re: "-- " for signatures?
1998-11-27 20:14 ` Russ Allbery
@ 1998-11-27 21:33 ` Christian Kurz
1998-11-27 22:47 ` Leonard Blanks
1998-11-27 22:52 ` Kai.Grossjohann
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From: Christian Kurz @ 1998-11-27 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> > "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> 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. ;-)
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* Re: "-- " for signatures?
1998-11-27 20:14 ` Russ Allbery
1998-11-27 21:33 ` Christian Kurz
@ 1998-11-27 22:47 ` Leonard Blanks
1998-11-27 22:52 ` Kai.Grossjohann
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From: Leonard Blanks @ 1998-11-27 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "RA" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
RA> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> 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.
RA> Are you sure it's an RFC? I thought the only "official" reference was in
RA> Son-of-1036.
Yes. In Section 4.3.2:
Early difficulties in inferring return addresses from arti-
cle headers led to "signatures": short closing texts, auto-
matically added to the end of articles by posting agents,
identifying the poster and giving his network addresses etc.
If a poster or posting agent does append a signature to an
article, the signature SHOULD be preceded with a delimiter
line containing (only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by
one blank (ASCII 32). Posting agents SHOULD limit the
length of signatures, since verbose excess bordering on
abuse is common if no restraint is imposed; 4 lines is a
common limit.
--
Len
We are all just prisoners here of our own MAKEDEV.
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* Re: "-- " for signatures?
1998-11-27 20:14 ` Russ Allbery
1998-11-27 21:33 ` Christian Kurz
1998-11-27 22:47 ` Leonard Blanks
@ 1998-11-27 22:52 ` Kai.Grossjohann
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kai.Grossjohann @ 1998-11-27 22:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Are you sure it's an RFC? I thought the only "official" reference
> was in Son-of-1036.
I finally found it in Son-of-1036. Grmpf. I searched for `--' and
for `dash', but of course the author of the document uses `hyphen' :-(
kai
--
Life is hard and then you die.
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