From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 14:53:24 CST
John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu):
>> No, I'm saying that if we include the sig dash in the standard, we
>> should say that the sig dash separates the body of the message from the
>> signature,
> The body of the message as defined in the message standards includes the
> signature. One cannot separate the body of the message from something
> that is contained therein. It would be like saying that your hand is not
> part of your arm after you've defined arm to mean "everything from the
> shoulder to the fingertips."
> Either the signature is part of the body or we get someone to rewrite
> the NNTP standards.
Yeah, one would have to come up with another word for the portion of the
body that's before the signature. This, plus the problems with how the
sigdash affects things like PGP signatures and trailing whitespace and so
forth, plus the fact that there's a real standard for separating portions
of the body from each other and the sigdash isn't it, all combine to make
somewhat skeptical that it really belongs in the standard. But I can live
with a *definition*.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>