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Joe Clark <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:51:24 -0500
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>>On Feb 16,  1:53pm, "Miroslaw J. Wiechowski" wrote:
>>
>>} This might be difficult as there is no standard way of telling which
>>} part of the message is the text and which part is only a signature.
>>
>>Ahhhh, but there is.  I described it in my earlier post.
>
>
>>It's a line containing dash, dash, space, newline, i.e. "-- "
>>
>>Of course not every mailer implements it correctly (or at all). :-(
>
> Could you, please, quote an official Internet document (eg. RFCxxxx)
> which exactly defines what a signature is?

Eudora author Steve Dorner sez there is no actual RFC, though it is
accepted practice.

The point is that Listserv should know to stop comparing two messages
after the "--" point.

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                                        Joe Clark
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