From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 06:32:18 CDT
Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk) writes:
> I think IETF drafts and RFCs are meant for human reading. If some
> non-humanly detectable feature (such as trailing whitespace) manages to
> get through to the stored form of the final document, then that is a
> bonus. But there is no guarantee that it would then make it to other
> copies of that document, so one must not rely on it (and we do not rely on
> it).
>
> If there is some convenient hack that would make it appear, then I would
> try to do so, but I do not think it worth exceptional effort to get it
> right.
Forgive me this has already been mentioned. I'm 180 messages behind.
For this particular example you could use a visible end-of-line character,
so that the example looks like:
-- $
John Example, Example Inc, john@john.example.$
(Or whatever text is the actual example which I'm too lazy dig out
right now.)
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se