Re: Outlook and HTML
Friday, December 03, 1999, 4:34:01 PM, Brian wrote:
> *- On 3 Dec, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote about "Re: Outlook and HTML"
>> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:28:57AM -0500,
>> Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>> 1. Standard signature separator is "--" with a blank following it.
>> Actually, it's "-- ". Notice the trailing space. Mutt, slrn, and
>> Netscape all do this correctly. I'm sure most other software does as
>> well.
> To me the phrase '"--" with a blank following it' is the same as "-- ".
Well, to be a total technical nitpicky prick, no, it doesn't. The
complete sig delimiter is "-- \n" or "dash dash space newline". Why do I
point this out? Because DOS loves to have CR/NL and MAC CR. IIRC neither of
those work as reliably as "-- \n". :P
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