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    dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online) —Todd Lehman
   (...) Oops, I shouldda posted that from a real newsreader. I posted it from the web interface, which strips trailing blanks from lines to reduce line wrapping problems. (...) It's a standard NNTP/Usenet sig thing going back decades (I think). Your (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online) —Jasper Janssen
   (...) "\n-- \n", actually. I don't think the practice actually goes back multiple decades - remember, in 1981, people were reading NETnews on 300 baud dumb terminals.. My guess would be the sigdelimiter convention dates to the middle 80s. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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