Posted by JohnWMpls on 08/03/05 05:24

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:31:09 +0100, David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com>
wrote:

=>JohnWMpls wrote:
=>
=>> I've been using my sig separator for almost 20 years in the BBS world.
=>> It is: 3 hyphens, CR/LF, Space, Text.....
=>>
=>> What you suggest looks similar but: 2 hyphens, CR/LF, Text....
=>> Is that right?
=>
=>No, 2 hyphens, space, CR/LF, Text.
=>
=>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2646.html
=>
=>> Does the difference make my old BBS style generally not accepted in
=>> newsgroups?
=>
=>Yes.

I tried cutting back to 2 hyphens on my BBS messages - and it works there
also.

Using the above in BBSs, my messages end up with just my sig - the
separator avoids the 2 lines of advertisement the local BBS usually
adds.

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JohnW-Mpls

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