Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: A suggestion: Remove dashes from signature
Message-ID: <616@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 15:25:37 GMT
References: <224@levels.sait.edu.au>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <224@levels.sait.edu.au> ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) writes:
>While we're making suggestions for the next version of elm:  I'd like the
>two dashes that are put above the signature, removed.  In particular, they
>offend my sense of aesthetics; and if I did want them, I could always put
>them in my signature file.

Two points here.  First, the two dashes are used by some mailers and
other programs to deliminate the end of the message.  If you remove
the dashes then a program would have no way of knowing where the message
ended and the signature began.

Second, rn and/or postnews will not accept a .signature file with more
than 4 lines in it.  If the dashes are put in the .signature file then
there is one line less for the signature.

JB
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