Re: "--" first in lines to indicate start of signature

Richard Clayton <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Jan 2016 20:48:36 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.rfc822
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In message <[email protected]>, Jacob Palme
<[email protected]> writes

>A common convention is that e-mail messages contain a short description of the 
>author, called "signature" and the start of this is indicated by a line only 
>containing the two characters "--".

no ... it's two dashes then a space

>Is this convention recommended or discused in some IETF standard? I cannot find 
>it in rfc5322.

it comes from Usenet -- see RFC3676 #4.3

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richard                                                   Richard Clayton

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Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755

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