Re: ASCII Ribbon Campaign

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Tina Marie Holmboe wrote:

had a delimiter in there and got complaints from other e-mail
correspondents about the length of the signature.  which is the problem I
face if I put in a descriptor 

da*med if I do and da*med if I don't 

Bob

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:12:06AM -0800, Kelly Ford wrote:
> 
> > 2. Give some textual indication of the fact that ASCII art was to follow 
> > and what it was intended to depict.  Optionally the number of lines, 
> > although this is hard to indicate accurately.
> 
>   That is usually what the 'signature delimiter' is there to do; something
>   which has been in use for quite a few years by now, but which seems to
>   have been forgotten by both users and mail client implementors.
> 
>   Those using a mail client capable of reading mail messages, may want
>   to suggest to the author of said client that utilizing existing
>   techniques could be useful.
> 
> -- 
>  -   Tina Holmboe                    Greytower Technologies
>    tina@greytower.net                http://www.greytower.net/
>    [+46] 0708 557 905
> 

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