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

Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:05:00 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Richard Clayton <[email protected]> writes:
> Jacob Palme <[email protected]> writes

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

> it comes from Usenet -- see RFC3676 #4.3

Oh, I had completely forgotten that it made it into the text/plain format
definition.  Thank you!  I'll add that to my page of Usenet article
reference information.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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