Subj : Re: Simple request...
To   : Tracker1
From : Time Warrior
Date : Sun May 29 2005 04:37 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Tracker1
  Re: Re: Simple request...
  By: Tracker1 to Angus Mcleod on Sun May 29 2005 02:32 pm

 > To: Angus Mcleod
 > Angus Mcleod wrote:
 > > A line containing only "-- \n" is seen by some as a separator between text
 > > body and signature, tags, etc.

 > > I'm not too sure what TW wants one added automatically for, tho...

 > he wants it for the auto-appended signatures that sync adds to user posted
 > messages for those message areas that are flagged for nntp, not a bad idea,
 > though would suggest it for "all" posts, since all areas are generally
 > accessible via nntp...

Very true.

 > One usefull thing, is many nntp readers will autostrip the signature down fr
 > replies, which is a nicety at the very least. ;)

Thats a double edged sword tho. It puts usenet people into "lazy" mode and 
they end up too lazy to manually cut out a sig in their replies, but are more 
than energetic enough to partake of a flame thread bitching that someone 
doesn't have a delimiter! :-)

It just goes to show, that sometimes features can give people just one more 
thing to bitch about. lol

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