Message from Joe Clark [05:51 99-02-19 ]:
>>>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.


In that case there is NO oficial standard and Listserv should not
try to guess what can be a signature, IMHO.

mjw