From: Dave Barr (barr@cis.ohio-state.edu)
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 09:57:19 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <19990521100013.C26875@demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:
> >Charles Lindsey said:
>
> >> Software constructing a followup will thus
> >> ignore everything after that first "-- ".
>
> >If we do it your way, you potentially lose half the message because of the
> >first separator. If we do it my way, we don't. Take your pick.
>
> Well my pick is to say that you lose "all the signatures" rather than that
> you lose "half the message". Does anyone else want to come in on this?
I would tend to prefer followups remove the _last_ block after a "-- ",
rather than the first. Sure, that would not work as well for double-sig
posts coming from free mail/usenet services, but potentially lessens the
impact over choosing the first one.
If this ends up getting too messy and hard to nail down, I would strongly
suggest backing off and simply define current practice. This is too small
of a problem to bother inventing something which may cause other breakage
or ambiguity.
--Dave
-- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~barr/ barr@cis.ohio-state.edu