Proper ettiquette for posting messages

[Guy Fraser]

adunn at micron.com wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
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>>>>Actually, "--" isn't a sig delimeter, "-- " is.
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>>>Thanx for the clarification. Is this covered in an RFC or some
>>>other standard, I dont't recall hearing about it until now.
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>>>
>>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.
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>
>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".
>  
>
Ah... that would explain it. I have never read any of the RFC's for USENET.

Have a happy new year.