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Re: spell on cygwin (was spell and nano)


Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> wrote in
<Pine dot GSO dot 4 dot 44 dot 0304070953050 dot 21921-100000 at slinky dot cs dot nyu dot edu>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:58:53 -0400 (EDT):

> > - --
> >  Ehud Karni           Tel: +972-3-7966-561  /"\
> 
> FYI, according to RFC 2646, the Usenet convention for signature separators
> is "^-- \n" (see <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt>, section 4.3).

Don't blame Ehud, Igor. Ehud's original version of his message almost
certainly had the correct separator. The process of wrapping it in a
PGP signature block automatically replaces the "-- " with "- -- ".

(Mind you, his signature still constitutes spam with the advertising
in it.)

-- 
Sam Edge

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