On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:57:09 -0600 "David C. Rankin" drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:
On 02/25/2014 11:57 AM, Darrell wrote:
The stupid double dash is the the defacto marker signifying the beginning of a sig. Why would you want rid of it?
Because I am anal sonuvabitch.
De facto according to whom?
No clue, but it is the standard, just like with my signature below. When used, the signature is automatically removed on reply/forward and replace by your signature. I'm sure there is a RFP that details it somewhere, but I haven't googled it :)
RFC 3676, section 4.3, describes it, but the custom predates that document by many years. Interestingly, RFC 1855 ("Netiquette Guildelines"), which I would have expected to be the governing document, makes no mention of sigdashes. It's always been primarily a Usenet convention, though--I expect it spread to email when it became common to combine the clients for both communication methods in a single program.
E. Liddell