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(...) So why did you post to it if you already knew :-D The top bar is just for major links, Busy-Bee is my own site obviously, The Entertainer's web-site has been around for ages and was always part of the design plan because it offers online (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) If you do use that as a sig, please be kind to others and put it in the standard sig format, meaning two -'s followed by a space character right before the actual sig (example at bottom of this message). That way, the sig can be stripped (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) OK, I read it. And? I may not LIVE in the UK, but I'm discussing things relevant to the UK, just as I did recently in loc.de when it looked like I might get to go there... Note followups. (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yep - Netscape usually puts the -- in there anyway. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Strange thing is though that your 'example' appears to consist fo two -'s followed by a carriage return (no space) :) What is this -- code anyway? I've not encountered that before Simon (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "\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. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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