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John B. Matthews
RedGrittyBrick said:A few days ago I was hopeful of discovering the origins of the hyphen
hyphen space signature separator. Individually people writing to c.l.j.p
are intelligent and focussed. Collectively we have the attention span of
a gnat!
Wait, there's history, but it only goes back to 2003:
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#section-4.3>
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/idtracker/draft-gellens-format-bis/>
It's described as "a long-standing convention."
[Oh dear, I'm drifting on and off topic like Billy Pilgrim.]