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Re: dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:39:59 GMT
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On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 20:48:00 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
wrote:
> It's a standard NNTP/Usenet sig thing going back decades (I think). Your
> news posting agent is supposed to put "-- \n" right before inserting your
> sig, so that other newsreaders can automatically strip it out when people
> reply.
"\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. Interestingly, a similar (though by no means equal)
feature is found on FIDOnet.
>
> --Todd
Todd? Your .sigdelimiter is bah-roken. ;)
Jasper
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