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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.

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.

ObNostalgia: Bring back tin, bring back Mosaic, bring back
***CONNECTION LOST***
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

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

Jim Carriere wrote:

Ogden Johnson III wrote:

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).

Yep. I do actually look in there at least once a day. I signed
up during a transition [under pressure from competitors in the
"freebie so we can talk them into a paid account" email market],
the result of which, in short order, was that they improved their
spam filtering, increased the size of free account storage,
removed the trash and spam mailboxes from being counted against
the users storage ... ...

Nevertheless, I kept the sig in the faint hope that people would
send email to where I can use my preferred email client - I don't
really like yahoo but SVEN made me do it. Alas, the people who
actually look and figure out the ojiii and the comcast.net seem
to be few and far between. [For those that don't figure it out,
I forward their email from Yahoo to my comcast address, and still
use my preferred email client. ;-]

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

Yeah. Lotta emotional pain the day I finally canceled my unix
shell account, abandoning tin, rtin, pine. But in all honesty,
I'd never go back. ;- Getting too lazy now that I'm fully
advancing into geezerhood.
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]