Ogden Johnson III wrote:

Jim Carriere wrote:


(BTW, my reply only came up with your text, everything after the "--"
got deleted- one more reason to use Netscape and not Explorer... neat
trick!)


I don't know how to break this to you Jim, or more properly,
these to you but;

a) If by "Explorer" you mean Internet Explorer, it is not a news
reader, aka news client.

b) If by "Explorer" you mean Outlook Express, when I used it [for
a very brief period before getting real email and news clients],
it would, indeed, observe the "-- " [dash dash space] properly
formed signature separator, and delete the sig.

Woops, I did mean Outlook Express. I fired it up to see if there as
a difference, and it didn't clip after the "-- ". Must be something
you can set on that program. Come to think of it, I used to know
that. They say memory is the second thing to go, what was the first
again?

c) In fact, all self-respecting news clients have always
recognized a properly formed sig separator, and deleted the sig
when one replies to a Usenet post.

It is not a "neat trick", it has been a part of the NNTP protocol
since before there ever was a WWW, or Internet Exploder, or
Lookout Express, or Netscrape.

Right there with you on self respecting news clients.

By the way, I'm not sure from your .sig whether you even bother to
use Yahoo, but their spam filter is far far better now than about a
year or two ago. I only get a few, uh, interesting emails a day, and
some days none (at one point is was 10-20 a day).

ObNostalgia: Bring back tin, bring back Mosaic, bring back
***CONNECTION LOST***

I first read this newsgroup (and many others) using tin... Brings a
tear to my eye thinking about it, no mouse, no light, no motorcar