25 Feb
2014
25 Feb
'14
2:32 p.m.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:57:09 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 02/25/2014 11:57 AM, Darrell wrote:
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
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?