[CLUE-Tech] Mozilla Mail Signature

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Wed May 26 10:45:42 MDT 2004


David Anselmi wrote:

> Nate Duehr wrote:
> [...]
>
>> Ahh, here it is.  In RFC 2646:
>>
>> 4.3. Usenet Signature Convention There is a convention in Usenet news 
>> of using "-- " as the separator line between the body and the 
>> signature of a message.
>
>
> Yes, I saw that.  And RFC 3676 which obsoletes it.  But those are 
> about parameters for the text/plain media type.  They mention the 
> convention (just like many FAQs on good net behavior).  But I would 
> say the sigdash is standardized by widespread usage rather than by an 
> RFC, which is why I didn't mention the RFCs.
>
> Dave 


Heh, yeah I agree with you.  I went the other route thinking... "Well, 
it's probably really because everyone does it, but there once was a 
standard somewhere... might as well quote it and make it stronger."  (GRIN)

Nate



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