From: Martin Schulze (joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE)
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 13:26:00 CST
jose.kahan@w3.org wrote:
> In our previous episode, Martin Schulze said:
> >
> > > Maybe I'm missing something. Is there any RFC defining this "--\n"
> > > signature separation convention? I scanned some 20 recent messages in
> > > my mailbox, all coming from different sources, and none of them uses
> > > the "--\n" convention.
> >
> > What do they use instead?
> >
>
> Anything!
>
> mutt, exmh, and emacs seem to use "--\n".
Wrong, Mutt uses "-- \n".
> I can guarantee you that if you look at your message box, you can verify
> what I'm saying. I didn't look at 20 messages that satisfied my rule,
> but the first 20 messages in my mailbox.
Well, since I use mutt, and it is configured to display signatures in
a different colour, and the pattern is "^-- $" it gets it right most
of the time, but i'll keep an eye on that.
> - Is it an RFC convention or not to separate signatures with "--\n" (
> or "---\n", etc).
Already posted, would have been an interesting search otherwise...
Regards,
Joey
-- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for!