From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 19:28:36 CST
J B Moreno <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
> Well, there's the heart of our disagreement (and thanks for helping
> crystallize my thoughts). The sigdash IS a protocol statement: the end
> of the portion of the body which should be automatically quoted in the
> followup. It obviously has other uses, but that's it's main purpose.
> And we should put it that way.
> It's not something that is automatically added, or the is within 4 lines
> of the bottom, it is a line consisting solely of "-- " and signals the
> end of the portion that user wants to discuss.
I have no problem with stating the meaning of the sigdash within the
protocol. I just think we should stop there, rather than go on to draw
conclusions about the implications of this for the user interface of a
followup agent, in large part because I think the latter discussion is out
of scope for a protocol standard.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>