{I admit that this thread is actually straying from procmail.}
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Wotan wrote:
[snip]
I also use pine, and .signature. Even with a random sig generator, I
manage to get the "-- " in. If your mailer doesn't include this, then you
should edit your sig so that it is included.
This is true -- up to a point. Pine allows you to specify a (real)
alternate editor in place of the rinky-dink built-in composer. And
whatever is in .signature (or whatever else you specify) gets inserted
into the edit space. Some editors, like it or not, trim trailing
spaces upon saving the file, so '-- ' as a sig marker would get
clobbered, anyway.
I fear that it is that trailing blank on '-- ' which is its own
undoing. And considering that so few people even *know* about the
'-- ' convention in the first place, I consider it to be obsolete and
unreliable. Like it or not, hordes of the great unwashed are invading
the inner sanctum of the cognoscenti. Micro$lop and Nut$crape are
simply not going to go away just because we might wish they would.
Regards,
Paul <pobart(_at_)access(_dot_)digex(_dot_)net>
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