Is this semi-standard documented or justified anywhere?
Thanks.
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> In many email clients that support boilerplate "signature" text at
> the end of composed messages, the client inserts a separator text
> sequence between the message text and the signature text: a newline,
> two hyphens, a space, and another newline.
>
> Is this semi-standard documented or justified anywhere?
Quoth RFC1036bis:
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).
Note that this isn't a standard in any formal sense, and RFC1036 is a
Usenet news thing. However, it has been the done thing since, well,
forever. It works.
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la...@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen