Re: Section_4.02.01 Basic Format

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From: Brad Knowles (blk@skynet.be)
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 10:01:24 CDT


On Mon, May 24, 1999, Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:

>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 vote for option three, which is that the standard we create
specifies that there can be one and only one "<dash><dash><SP>" signature
separator per article. If a signature is to be added to a posting that
already has a signature, this should be added and a different separator
created that varies from the standard signature separator by some
algorithmic method (maybe an extra <dash> at the beginning, or maybe
<dash><SP>, or whatever).

    Ambiguity is bad. I think we should do whatever we can to avoid it.

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