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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:18:03 +0200, Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>> IIRC it's specified in an RFC, but I can't find it right now.
>> It /is/ a signature separator, as you can easily see by using Google.
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> Nope, it is a header for some attachment formats...
"\n-- \n" was specified as the signature separator in a draft RFC that was
supposed to have replaced RFC 1036, but that never happened. Nevertheless,
it is considered by most newsreaders to be a standard. Only the big
commercial newsreaders like Agent and Outbreak Express (on Windows;
apparently also some on the Mac platform) seem to ignore it.
>>> A signature is part of the body and this it is quoted. How could the
>>> server guess what a signature is reliably?
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>> By looking for "-- " as almost every newsreader does.
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> Mine doesn't (not surprising though for the company making it). The "--" is
> not in the messages in the web view, and as it isn't used as universal
> separator for signatures, even if it was, it wouldn't work either :-(
It works often enough. My newsreader usually doesn't quote signatures; if
it does I know that it's because the sender's newsreader is using a broken
separator. Your signature, of course, gets quoted. :)
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