Re: Should we leave this automatic handling of signatures and HTML?

        Well, yours uses "-- \n". Mine (thanks to ye olde pine) users "--\n" (no space).

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:

> jose.kahan_at_w3.org wrote:
> > In our previous episode, Peter C. McCluskey said:
> > >
> > > The autodetection of signatures works a lot of the time, and
> > > occasionally adding <PRE>'s where they don't belong does much
> > > less harm than avoiding them where they are needed, so I strongly
> > > object to removing this.
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something. Is there any RFC defining this "--\n"
> > signature separation convention? I scanned some 20 recent messages in
> > my mailbox, all coming from different sources, and none of them uses
> > the "--\n" convention.
>
> What do they use instead?

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