small bug in all reports

Christopher Hicks chicks at CHICKS.NET
Tue Feb 17 20:49:43 GMT 2004


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Julian Field wrote:
> The sig separator is supposed to be "-- ". It's in an RFC somewhere...

:-)  RFC 2646 states:

> 4.3.  Usenet Signature Convention
>
>    There is a convention in Usenet news of using "-- " as the separator
>    line between the body and the signature of a message.  When
>    generating a Format=Flowed message containing a Usenet-style
>    separator before the signature, the separator line is sent as-is.
>    This is a special case; an (optionally quoted) line consisting of
>    DASH DASH SP is not considered flowed.

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