Anthony E. Greene wrote:
On 25-Oct-2002/03:04 -0500, Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
Hmm, interesting. I had no idea what those hyphens were intended for...
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