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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:38:57 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenTTD Trouble
Message-ID:  <44313381.7010004@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <77d930220604030042k77a5e84ay11e448c2e0af7c54@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2655.202.172.121.132.1144049310.squirrel@team.mgsk.net.au> <20060403073536.GA62744@xor.obsecurity.org> <77d930220604030042k77a5e84ay11e448c2e0af7c54@mail.gmail.com>

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Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote:
> On 4/3/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
>> FYI, many mail clients interpret '--' as the 'beginning of .signature
>> block' separator and render the subsequent text differently, e.g. in a
>> very tiny font.
> 
> Very off-topic, but I think the most common sig-block identifier is
> "dash dash space", not only "dash dash". No standards on this, though.

Agreed, a sigdash is "dash dash space".

The sigdash was proposed as an extension to RFC-1036
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt, there has also been an effort to
standardize Usenet newsreader conventions here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/

-- 
-Chuck



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