Netiquette and Signatures
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Signatures, or "sigs" should be short, typically no more than 3 or 4
lines, and should be preceded by a "sigdash" or "sigsep" which is a
line consisting of just two dashes followed by a single space, i.e. "-- ",
without the quotes.
The sigdash has been around for quite a while (the earliest reference I can confirm,
is from Fri, June 24, 1983 in BNews 2.10.1,
where the sigdash is added on line 679 of inews.c ).
fprintf(tmpfp, "-- \n"); /* To separate */
The sigdash allows other programs to recognize when the body of your message
is finished and where the sig begins -- this is useful for automatically
removing the sig when quoting for a followup, as well as coloring it a different
color, archiving, and various other things.
Below is a list of mail and news programs that use or enforce the sigdash.
ClientNAME Version RelDate sigdash removesig sigmult
========== ======= ======= ======= ========= =======
AdBuster 1.10 . . Y .
AllNews 1.30 . . Y .
BeInformed 0.9.4 . . Y .
Datula 1.22.06 000123 Y Y Y
Dialog 2.0.2.1b24 021026 Y Y Y
Entourage 9.0.2509 001013 Y Y Y
Forte Agent 1.7 . opt Y Y
Google.com . . Y .
GRn . . . Y .
Gnus 5.070044 . Y Y Y
GoodNews . . . Y .
Gravity 2.1 . . Y Y
Hogwasher 1.0b6 . Y! Y Y
Informant 1.0.0 PR3 000319 Y Y .
kexpress 0.80 . . Y .
Knews 0.9.8 . . Y .
Knode . . Y Y .
Marcel . Y Y .
MacSOUP 2.4 . Y Y N
MessengerPRO . . . Y .
MesNews . . Y Y Y
MICE NewsReader 1.13 . Y Y N
Mozilla M16 . Y Y N
MR/2 ICE 1.69 . Y Y .
MT-NewsWatcher 3.0 . Y Y Y
Mulberry 3.12 . Y Y Y (not by default, must set preference)
MultiMail 0.31 . Y Y .
NetReader 1.16 990919 Y Y N
NewsBe . . . Y .
NewsHound . . Y! Y .
NewsCoaster 1.15 990904 Y Y Y
NewsReader.Com . 980224 Y! Y .
NewsRog . . Y Y .
NewsWatcher 2.2.2 . Y Y N
NewsXpress 2.01 . . Y .
Noworyta 1.9b 010707 Y Y Y
Offlite . . Y .
OUI 1.9.1 . Y N .
Outlook Express 5.0 (MacOS) . Y Y Y
OutlookExpress 5.0 Win95/98 . N[1] N .
Poco 2.5(beta) 010604 Y Y Y
PAN 0.8beta8 . Y Y .
PINT 2.2alpha7.2 . . Y .
Pine 4.10 990204 Y Y .
Pineapple News 0.8.2 000903 Y Y .
Pluto 1.11k . Y Y .
ProNews/2 1.51 b4 001215 Y Y .
RMRNews 1.02 . Y Y .
RadicalNews . . . Y .
Slrn 0.9.5.7 . . Y Y
Snews 1.3 . . Y .
The Bat! 2.0 . Y Y Y
Thoth 1.0 001113 Y! Y Y
tin pre-1.4 980514 . Y .
Turnpike 1.11k . Y Y .
VirtualAccess ? . . Y .
WinVN 0.99.12b . . Y .
XanaNews 1.12.1.2 021103 Y Y Y
Xnews 2.05.10 . . Y .
XPN 0.1.7 . Y Y Y
XRN 9.02 . Y Y .
YAM 2.0 . Y Y Y
YA-NewsWatcher 4.0.0 991231 Y! Y Y
[1] Outlook Express requires Cumulative Update for Outlook Express 6.0 SP1 to be installed in order to produce a
correct sigdash.
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