Re: Question on Sigs...

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".

>They rekoned that unless it was dash-dash-space it counted as part of
>the sig meaning that you were only allowed 3 lines... how stupid.

As far as this is concerned, it leaves me confused too.
Basically, a valid sig seperator is dash dash space enter
Anything else is not a "valid sig seperator" so what is below the
supposed sig seperator is considered to be a part of the message, as far
as software for interpreting the message is concerned.

Paul Wilkins