unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [FYI] The Lisp Machine is back
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:41:45 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1409202241320.21860@chris.tor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761ghloty.fsf@debian.uxu>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 1293 bytes --]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> writes:
>
>> Wonderful! Grant Rettke gcr@wisdomandwonder.com |
>> http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in
>> wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))
>> “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been
>> forced to stop taking it seriously.” --Thompson
>
> Off topic: It is a good idea to put your signature
> below two dashes (--) - that way clients can be

    As the passage from RFC 3676 says, that should be two dashes and a
    space, '-- '. Two dashes alone don't do anything in most news/mail
    agents.

> configured to hide them (and show them on RET) as in
> Gnus with (gnus-article-hide-signature nil 1) - which
> doesn't work for your signature because of the lack of
> dashes. Especially since you write so short messages
> and have such a long signature, I'd really recommend
> it.
>
> If you like, read RFC 3676:
>
>    There is a long-standing convention in Usenet news
>    which also commonly appears in Internet mail of
>    using "-- " as the separator line between the body
>    and the signature of a message. ...
>
> Full document: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt

-- 
Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-21  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-19 17:20 [FYI] The Lisp Machine is back Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-21  1:18 ` Grant Rettke
     [not found] ` <mailman.9281.1411262328.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-21  1:55   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-21  2:41     ` Chris F.A. Johnson [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9284.1411267342.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-21  3:11       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-21  3:17         ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-21 13:28     ` Grant Rettke

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.10.1409202241320.21860@chris.tor \
    --to=chris@cfajohnson.com \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).