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On 25-Oct-2002/03:04 -0500, Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>I've never had a problem with "--".  Every program that I know that's looked
>at it hasn't complained about a space.  Doesn't make any sense for it to
>be there.

At the time when it was first used, there probably was a reason for the
trailing space. At this point it's one of those informal Internet
standards, just like the reply quote ">".

Tony
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