"Grant Taylor" wrote: > On 1/26/22 7:24 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > See RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters: > > 4.3. Usenet Signature Convention > > RFC 3676 § 4.3 seems to be documenting an existing convention. > (IM(ns)HO) It does not /define/ nor /specify/ the convention. > > At most it is an acknowledgement ~> acceptance of an existing convention
> defined / specified elsewhere. Yeah, yeah. Semantics. :) Bottom line is that this is a well-established convention. It is NOT a defined standard anywhere. Heck, RFCs aren't standards at all anyway. It was never codified anywhere that I can find. My best guess is that it was a handshake agreement on some early email support and just "stuck." -- Eric Rossman, CISSP® ICSF Cryptographic Security Development z/OS Enabling Technologies [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
