En Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:58:53 -0200, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
escribió:

>> "Mariano Suárez-Alvarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> On Feb 7, 3:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> [disclaimer dozens of lines long]
>>> Is this absurd signature really necessary?

> That particular trailing crud would be much nicer if they'd put a space
> after the leading "--", that way at least we wouldn't have to trim them
> out of our replies. This merely tells us that the sysadmins are as
> ill-informed as the legal staff ... or perhaps it's just Matthew trying
> his best to help us, since I see it appears above the list mailer
> trailer. The system is probably trimming the trailing spaces off the
> message body. Oh well, ...

Perhaps he didn't know that a correct signature separator must be *exactly*
<newline><dash><dash><space><newline>
Nothing more, nothing less. It's easy to dismiss that last space - after  
all, trailing spaces are almost never significant.

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Gabriel Genellina

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