[Coco] Moratorium on using double-dash?

Theodore (Alex) Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Thu Dec 5 10:27:22 EST 2013


On 12/05/2013 09:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> No, more properly \n-- \n, eg all 5 characters are the search target, a
> simple dash dash space, because it doesn't have the surrounding newlines
> should just be more text and ignored.

When I started using the internet and email (1985), most email clients
only looked for "\n--" and .sigs that started with many hyphens were
common.  However as Gene says, I and many others start our .sigs with
"\n-- \n" and firmly believe that any properly configured email client
should ignore the .sig in replies.




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