A note on newsgroup signatures

[Amedee Van Gasse]

That is a ridiculous convention. Trailing spaces are routinely
stripped from lines. -- on a line by itself should suffice.

Troll alert?

Hey, Gravity did not strip your signature but it did strip the signature
from other people! Sometimes I use Xnews or Pan, and I know they do the
same.
I don't care whatever the convention is: as long as *my* newsreader can
work with it, I'm happy to use tomorrows' convention. I don't ask
questions, the internet and its conventions already existed for decades
before I first came online in '95. ;-)

 

[Okki van Oranje]

I don't care whatever the convention is: as long as *my* newsreader can
work with it, I'm happy to use tomorrows' convention. I don't ask
questions, the internet and its conventions already existed for decades
before I first came online in '95. ;-)

Hear hear. Nobody likes people who break standards. It would get very
messy in traffic if you can deceide yourself wether to drive on the
left or right, stop at a red or at a green light or drive forward or
in reverse all the time.

 

[Dale King]

I recently started reading the Java newsgroups on my PDA and
noticed that several people (including several of the regulars)
are not using the correct separator for their signature. The
convention is to use "-- "; 2 dashes followed by a space. They
are missing the space. This convention allows people to strip
your signature. Reading news on my PDA it is helpful to remove
signatures.

I started to email individual offenders but there were enough
that I thought a general post was in order.