Re: [ProgSoc] $0.02 and email --

[Telford Tendys <telford@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

> >> p.s. can people put a "--" as the first line of their signature?
> 
> > Email is ASCII.  Cope with it.
> 
> doof, the '--' is there because it is part of the RFC's (822 or 823 i
> cant remember which one). iut has nothing to do with ascii and
> everything to do with delimiting your signature or other automagically
> generated text at the end of messages (this is why you see one above
> the "you are subscribed to progsoc" message).
> 
> if you wish to ignore standards you start walking down the dark path.

I kinda feel that the MIME standard is pretty good and generally
supercedes all the other fiddly protocols wherever possible.
The only case where you don't use MIME is just plain text emails,
and let's face it, they don't need wanky signatures tacked on the
end, now do they?

(actually, most MIME separators seem to start with --, hmmm)

	- Tel
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