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    From Peter Able@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 19:14:57 2025
    Just what is the character string that chops off the end of replied-to
    emails?

    It looks like a space then two hyphens - but there's more to it, I guess.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Peter Able on Wed Mar 26 19:38:37 2025
    On 26/03/2025 in message <vs1jnh$2dakv$[email protected]> Peter Able wrote:

    Just what is the character string that chops off the end of replied-to >emails?

    It looks like a space then two hyphens - but there's more to it, I guess.

    hyphen hyphen space carriage return.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    This joke was so funny when I heard it for the first time I fell of my dinosaur.

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  • From Alan J. Wylie@21:1/5 to Peter Able on Wed Mar 26 20:17:00 2025
    Peter Able <[email protected]> writes:

    Just what is the character string that chops off the end of replied-to emails?

    It looks like a space then two hyphens - but there's more to it, I guess.

    See RFC 1849, in particular section 4.3.2

    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1849.html#section-4.3.2

    You seem to be referring to a "signature-delimiter"

    | 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).

    --
    Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ mailto:<[email protected]>

    Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is.
    Security is inversely proportional to convenience

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Thu Mar 27 07:06:25 2025
    On 27/03/2025 07:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 26/03/2025 19:14, Peter Able wrote:
    Just what is the character string that chops off the end of replied-to
    emails?

    It looks like a space then two hyphens - but there's more to it, I guess.

    Nope. That's all there is
    space  hyphen  hyphen newline

    Grr.
    hyphen hyphen space [newline]
    --
    In todays liberal progressive conflict-free education system, everyone
    gets full Marx.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Peter Able on Thu Mar 27 07:04:31 2025
    On 26/03/2025 19:14, Peter Able wrote:
    Just what is the character string that chops off the end of replied-to emails?

    It looks like a space then two hyphens - but there's more to it, I guess.

    Nope. That's all there is
    space hyphen hyphen newline

    --
    In todays liberal progressive conflict-free education system, everyone
    gets full Marx.

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  • From Peter Able@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 07:30:39 2025
    Thank you all, especially for the technical name of the pesky critter.

    Without that my googling was a waste of much time.

    PA

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  • From Tim Streater@21:1/5 to Peter Able on Thu Mar 27 08:40:39 2025
    On 27 Mar 2025 at 07:30:39 GMT, "Peter Able" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Thank you all, especially for the technical name of the pesky critter.

    Without that my googling was a waste of much time.

    And it doesn't cut anything off. It's a separator between the body text and your sig, allowing the news app to avoid including your sig in replies.

    --
    I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed whole academic subjects, such as 'gender
    studies', devoted to it.

    Roger Scruton

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Peter Able on Thu Mar 27 08:30:46 2025
    On 27/03/2025 in message <vs2ur0$3ni16$[email protected]> Peter Able wrote:

    Thank you all, especially for the technical name of the pesky critter.

    Without that my googling was a waste of much time.

    PA

    Bit like using a dictionary to check spelling :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    There are 3 types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those
    who can't.

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  • From Max Demian@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Thu Mar 27 11:08:58 2025
    On 26/03/2025 19:38, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 26/03/2025 in message <vs1jnh$2dakv$[email protected]> Peter Able wrote:

    Just what is the character string that chops off the end of replied-to
    emails?

    It looks like a space then two hyphens - but there's more to it, I guess.

    hyphen hyphen space carriage return.

    Is that "carriage return", "line feed" or some combination? Or does that
    depend on something in the header?

    --
    Max Demian

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Max Demian on Thu Mar 27 12:00:57 2025
    Max Demian <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 26/03/2025 19:38, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 26/03/2025 in message <vs1jnh$2dakv$[email protected]> Peter Able wrote:

    Just what is the character string that chops off the end of replied-to
    emails?

    It looks like a space then two hyphens - but there's more to it, I guess.

    hyphen hyphen space carriage return.

    Is that "carriage return", "line feed" or some combination? Or does that depend on something in the header?

    Press the Return key. Your client will deal with converting that to
    whatever's expected on the socket when talking to the NNTP server (which I think is CR+LF, but don't quote me on that).

    When you see the posting in an editor, it'll use whatever line endings are traditional for your system (CR+LF for DOS/Windows, LF for Unix, CR for
    Classic MacOS, ...). Conversion is all handled behind the scenes by your client.

    Theo

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