Re: Signature not working

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I was perplexed by two things. The first was that anyone would think
> -- t was a sig-sep, because a sig-sep is "Hyphen Hyphen Space Newline",
> and the second was that I couldn't think of any particularly bad
> effects that the -- t would cause.
>
> After all, if it's *not* recognised as a sig-sep, then -- t becomes
> merely the last line of the message (wasn't that its intention?),
> and if it *is* misinterpreted as a sig-sep, then anything after it
> gets treated as a signature. Is that terrible? IDK. We're just told
> it's "broken", "doesn't work", and "fails completely", rather than
> being informed of which client produces what symptoms.

+1

I tried to ask these very questions but so far haven't seen any answers,
so I'm still convinced that the complains are the result of a confusion.


        Stefan