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>
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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>
next prev parent 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
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