On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:06, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> At the time when it was first used, there probably was a reason for the
> trailing space. At this point it's one of those informal Internet
> standards, just like the reply quote ">".
It's somewhat documented.
>From RFC 2646:
4.3. Usenet Signature Convention
There is a convention in Usenet news of using "-- " as the separator
line between the body and the signature of a message. When
generating a Format=Flowed message containing a Usenet-style
separator before the signature, the separator line is sent as-is.
This is a special case; an (optionally quoted) line consisting of
DASH DASH SP is not considered flowed.
<snip>
4.5. Quoting
In Format=Flowed, the canonical quote indicator (or quote mark) is
one or more close angle bracket (">") characters. Lines which start
with the quote indicator are considered quoted. The number of ">"
characters at the start of the line specifies the quote depth.
Flowed lines which are also quoted may require special handling on
display and when copied to new messages.
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