Re: Question on Sigs...
From "Dave Bird---ARS HakeMonger ,,,,><_'>.,,,<_\",,,," <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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· 24 May 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <374...@news.clara.net>, Sara (VSM) <sar...@fiendmail.net> writes >:>>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? Either it's built in or it isn't. TURNPIKE (www.turnpike.com) cuts signs before replying using that separator. _ ' ' _ --( '.".' ) __ :--H--: _\_'./"\.' You'll never get me up in one of those things. _/_.-' / . . ( ( ( ( ( @) (" ) ) ) ) . ...." " " " "...... " " " " ...http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1ab47bde6f51e587 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Dave Bird---ARS HakeMonger ,,,,><_'>.,,,<_\",,,," <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Question on Sigs... Date: 1999/05/24 Message-ID: <6ZgkSODk$cS3...@xemu.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 481719994 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 References: <374...@news.inxpress.net> <374...@news.vossnet.net> <7i95ml$jbr$2...@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz> <$Qld...@xemu.demon.co.uk> <374...@news.clara.net> X-Complaints-To: abu...@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 927594613 nnrp-06:6801 NO-IDENT xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 Organization: very little MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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