Posted by Dr J R Stockton on 05/21/07 19:14

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <aqOdnTLoGq_qac3bnZ2dnUVZ
_o3inZ2d@comcast.com>, Sun, 20 May 2007 21:23:02, Ed Mullen
<ed@edmullen.net> posted:
>
>http://mozilla.edmullen.net/moz_sigtag.html

To be foolproof, it should say that "dash dash space" must be on a line
on its own.

ISTM that "separator" is better than "delimiter" as it makes it clearer
that the signature starts after it rather than with it.

Established Usenet convention is for at most 4 lines of sig, not 6; see
Wikipedia.

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