Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!welty From: welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: suggested change for newsreaders Message-ID: <13349@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 12 Mar 89 18:56:53 GMT References: <2813776185@stearns.steinmetz.ge.com> <259@algor2.UUCP> <7289@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <2814479975@Stearns.Steinmetz> <11844@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> Reply-To: welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty) Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies Lines: 18 In article <2814479975@Stearns.Steinmetz> welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty) writes: ... wondering just where the `-- ' convention is specified ... In article <11844@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes: >the rn manual documents the '-- ' convention in its setting for >the PAGESTOP variable. "If defined, contains a regular expression >which matches article lines to be treated as form-feeds." well, documentation in the rn manual hardly constitutes widely net-wide distribution, for the obvious reason that it only reaches sites with rn. likewise, if your quote above is correct, then it hardly specifies that `-- ' goes between the article body and the signature. richard -- richard welty 518-387-6346, GE R&D, K1-5C39, Niskayuna, New York welty@steinmetz.ge.com welty@crd.ge.com uunet!steinmetz!welty