X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b29921fc3bc4fdc0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-03 12:49:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!amsnews01.chello.com!nlnews00.chello.com.POSTED!tanya. From: ppunk@chello.balls.nl (Donderfliegen) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Informatic Departament UTFSM, Valparaiso Chile Organization: Total Disorganisation Message-ID: References: <9u06rr$lc7$1@manutara.inf.utfsm.cl> <6pad0us0cdofttdjnm4ie00tqbjc3rmjsi@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.0.69 X-Original-Trace: 3 Dec 2001 20:27:37 +0100, 192.168.0.69 Lines: 32 X-Authenticated-User: donderfliegen Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 19:20:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.93.74.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.nl X-Trace: nlnews00.chello.com 1007407253 213.93.74.225 (Mon, 03 Dec 2001 18:20:53 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 18:20:53 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12122 On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:08:38 +0000 (UTC), Triteno provoked the following text: >> Extending the sig upwards like you did causes newsreaders to leave the sig >> in thus missing its purpose alltogether. >> Don't get me wrong, your sig looks good, but you might as well have left out >> the two dashes all the same. > >yup, i know that :-) >and currenty i'm preparing a patch for slrn[*], which will accept my >new standard of signature :-) Don't forget to patch all other newsreaders that can snip away sigs. :-) >Yeah, now i feel like Bill Gates, making standards is so funny :-))) >And afaik correct signature delimiter is not "-- ", but "-- \n" (line >end) And what ASCII control char would that be then? Just curious. >[*] slrn is unix news reader, but ported ## ## ## >to windows... ##eiq ## ## So is XNews :-) -- __ ___ / ) _/_ _(_ /'_ _ _ /(_/()/)(/(-/ / (/(-(/(-/) _/ Castrate me to reply by e-mail Bylaw states that no more than 3.5 inches of water is allowed in a bathtub. (Canada, Etobicoke City Law)