From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 04:14:12 CST
In <200101041843.NAA21700@darkstar.prodigy.com> davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) writes:
>> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:03:02 +0000
>> From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
>> >> X13 is no interoperability, so it must be Ought Not.
>> >
>> > Hmmm! More opinions? I left it as a SHOULD NOT because, although it is an
>> > act of the user's agent, and an overridable one at that, it does produce
>> > effects which are externally visible, and therefore of concern to people
>> > other than that user.
>>
>> I do feel that a signature is a separate part of the message, so this
>> should be a SHOULD NOT. However, I wouldn't die in the ditch for it.
> I've been lurking recently, but I agree that this SHOULD be the case,
>since including the sig is a user visible change. Um, at one time there
>was a reader which identified a sig with a /-- $/ regex, so even quoted
>sigs were treated as beginning of sig. Add the option to only display
>five lines of sig... SHOULD!
I now have 4 people for Ought and 4 for SHOULD on this one :-( .
So the status quo (SHOULD) will remain unless anyone else speaks up.
Most of the other issues I think I can now resolve based on what people
have been saying here.
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