Charles Lindsey <chl(_at_)clerew(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> wrote:
C. A message either has a signature line, or it doesn't have a
signature line.
D. The answer to question C (does the user see a signature line on
his display) MUST be the same whether viewed by an A-like client or a
B-like client.
Perhaps the draft is not clear enough about the distinction between
"signature separator for the purpose of rewrapping" versus "signature
separator for the purpose of displaying a sig". The draft is talking
about the former, and has nothing to say about the latter. For example:
---begin-example---
The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy
dog.
--
Joe Smith
How now, brown cow?
--
Jane Cooper
---end-example---
The first "signature separator" is classified as a signature separator, rather
than a flowed line, in order to prevent it from being rewrapped like so:
The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog.
-- Joe Smith
But its classification as a signature separator for this purpose doesn't
mean that "Joe Smith" will be displayed as a sig. A message body has
only one sig, and in this case it's "Jane Cooper".
AMC