Re: Question on Sigs...
From Vice Admiral Acker <Kam...@rotfl.com>
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· 23 May 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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Thanx for the -- tip, I didn't know that much about sigs. I'm kinda new, in
case you didn't know.
.----> VAA noticed that Paul Wilkins posted:
| 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
|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1ab47bde6f51e587 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Kam...@rotfl.com (Vice Admiral Acker) Subject: Re: Question on Sigs... Date: 1999/05/23 Message-ID: <374...@news.inxpress.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 481199502 References: <374...@news.inxpress.net> <374...@news.vossnet.net> <7i95ml$jbr$2...@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz> X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 927475295 208.16.9.159 (Sun, 23 May 1999 11:01:35 CDT) Organization: http://www.spunge.org/~vaa/ Reply-To: bra...@inxpress.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 11:01:35 CDT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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