On Fri Jul 31 14:39:39 2020 Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> Then you're confused: his `-- t` is perfectly normal and valid >> >> No, I'm not confused. '-- t' is NOT a valid sig separator. > > Indeed it's not, and that's OK because Tomas doesn't use it as > a "signature separator" (the thing that should be `-- \n`), but > just as the last line of text in his email, which stands more or > less for his name. > > There are 3 separate notions of signature here at play: > A) the `-- \n` notion of signature taken from ~/.signature. > B) the non-computer-related notion of someone adding his name > at the end of his text > C) the cryptographic data meant to prove authenticity. > > Tomas means his `-- t` to be of the (B) category (just like my > `-nStefan` below), and according to the RFCs with which I'm familiar > it does indeed correctly fall into the (B) category. > > IIUC you think it was meant to be in the (A) category, but I have no > idea what makes you think so. Compounding the confusion, even the signatures from The Wanderer and Brad Rogers don't come out properly on my machine. I read this list through the newsgroup linux.debian.user, using slrn - and the "--\n" from these two people comes through as --=20, hence is not recognized. This probably has something to do with the fact that their messages contain a "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable", which I've always thought to be a nasty format. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | Apple is a cult. X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy. / \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.
