On Wednesday 30 January 2013 15:47 Paul D Smith wrote in uk.d-i-y:

"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...

On 30/01/2013 12:51, Paul D Smith wrote:

nothing!

(if you post under someone else's signature line, most news software
will trim off your post completely when replying)

That's quite amusing. I wonder how they figure out what a signature line
is? As someone who writes software for a living I'm always amused to see
new ways for software authors have helpfully shot themselves in the foot.
As far as I am aware (and "News" is not my field so I'm ready to be
additionally educated) a News item is simply text, with no implied
interpretation of any part of the item.

Paul DS.

I'm afraid you are mistaken Paul.

The dash-dash-space-newline ("-- \n") is a long accepted sig separator in
USENET posts and to a significant extent, emails.

And most correctly programmed clients will treat it specially.

That precludes, sadly, Google Groups, which makes a complete hash of any
interaction with USENET.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block

Cheers

Tim
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