For those who didn’t know;<\/p>\n
RFC Standard<\/strong> “signatures”: short closing texts, auto-matically added to the end of articles by posting agents, identifying the poster and giving his network addresses etc. If a poster or posting agent does append a signature to an article, the signature SHOULD be preceded with a delimiter line containing (only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by one blank (ASCII 32). Let’s recap: For those who didn’t know; RFC Standard ftp:\/\/ftp.demon.co.uk\/pub\/news\/doc\/so1036.txt “signatures”: short closing texts, auto-matically added to the end of articles by posting agents, identifying the poster and giving his network addresses etc. If a poster or posting agent does append a… <\/p>\n
\nftp:\/\/ftp.demon.co.uk\/pub\/news\/doc\/so1036.txt<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPosting agents SHOULD limit the length of signatures, since verbose excess bordering on abuse is common if no restraint is imposed; 4 lines is a common limit..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n– Your email\/newsgroup signatures should be a maximum 4 lines. That’s the standard limit.
\n– separate your signature from the message body with two hyphens and a space (-- <\/tt>). You’d be surprised what software<\/a> can<\/a> do<\/a> if it can recognize a proper signature delimiter. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"