Proper ettiquette for posting messages

adunn at micron.com adunn at micron.com
Fri Jan 2 22:21:35 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> 
> > >Actually, "--" isn't a sig delimeter, "-- " is.
> >
> > Thanx for the clarification. Is this covered in an RFC or some
> > other standard, I dont't recall hearing about it until now.
> 
> I'm sure it's in an RFC, but I don't remember where; it's 
> been at least 
> ten years since I've been using it.
> 

It is RFC 1036, from 1987: "Standard for interchange of USENET
messages".  It's buried deep within
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1036.html.  You can search the document for
"signature".

Regards,

Drew Dunn





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