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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: Dashed line before .signature
From:       greg () hal ! COM (Greg Hilton)
Date:       1994-05-31 21:26:03
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Sridhar Venkataraman (sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu) wrote:

: Please make sure it is "^-- $" as a regular expression, i.e. two
: dashes and a space.   That is the convention for starting a signature.

: Sridhar.

Does anyone know where (and why) this convention originated?

   Thanks.

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: Greg Hilton  : HaL Software Systems : Austin, Texas                 :
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