On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Paul O Bartlett wrote:
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.
Actually, I think NS puts in the "-- ".
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