I put my sig the way it is to stop the news poster program from adding
advertisements onto my sig. God knows why the university let
the newsreader provider do that...

Paul Repacholi wrote:
Martin Gregorie writes:

I knew this was going to happen...

- you should precede your sig with a line containing with two hyphens
and nothing else. Properly written news readers will spot these and
automatically remove the sig to save you the bother.

Wrong. So stupid reasons burried in history, a sig marker is `dash
dash SPACE' all on a line of its own. Yes, a trailing space. -- is in
fact quite common in the body of the postings on some newsgroups.

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