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On 9/22/2008 9:06 AM, Walden H. Leverich arranged the binary bits such
that:
What's this "standard recognizing space before the end of line" that you
refer to. I'm rather well versed in the mail RFCs and I don't know of
what you speak.

-Walden


Its an expansion of a newsgroup standard that more of the mail clients
are adopting for email as well. It is a "Signature Delimiter." Actually
they are making their code simpler by treating email and newsgroup
postings the same. When replying, the client stops copying at a line
that consists of just three characters before the new line characters.
Those three characters are dash dash space.

It is very useful for mailing lists to keep the automatically appended
footer from showing up a dozen times in the eleventh successive reply to
a post.

The other expansion of its use in email is that the client inserts the
delimiter just before inserting the signature file so that it can also
be automatically dropped by other clients when replying.

Some of the early versions of the clients trying to implement this and
users with clients that don't do it at all but are trying to fit in miss
that there is a space at the end.

Roger


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