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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 May 1999.
Re: Question on Sigs...

Re: Question on Sigs...

From sara@fiendmail.net (Sara (VSM)) · alt.ascii-art · 24 May 1999 00:00 · View full thread · report
,............"Dave Bird---ARS HakeMonger ,,,,><_'>.,,,<_\",,,,"
<dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> typed the following...
:In article <7i95ml$jbr$2...@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz>, Paul Wilkins
:<pmw...@ext.canterbury.ac.nz> writes
:>Martin Atkins wrote
:>>The generally accepted size is, as you say, 4 or 5 lines. I was in a
:>>group once (though I stopped reading after a few days) where they
:>>were getting techy about putting a space after your -- separator line
:>>.. I ask you!
:>
:>There is a good reason for this.
:>If the seperator line is --<cr> then it is not an official sig
:>seperator -- <cr>
:>If you have a good news reader you can tell it to remove the sig from
:>whatever message you're reading. This is why the "standard".
:
:
: This is a sorta half-way proposal that never really got finally 
: agreed. However, many people stick by it; and my newsreader
: will cut after "-- " in generating replies.
:..................

Can I do that with FreeAgent?

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From: sar...@fiendmail.net (Sara (VSM))
Subject: Re: Question on Sigs...
Date: 1999/05/24
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