RFC 3676 acknowledges two long standing conventions. One is the sig delimiter and the other is the quoting convention that all housebroken e-mail clients support. I only mentioned 4.5 because of the recurring conversations about ubiquitous e-mail clients that are not housebroken.
I don't know of any RFC that defines these conventions as standards. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Grant Taylor [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: LISTSERV Noise? 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. I'm hoping that someone can provide an authoritative source for where the convention is defined / specified. > 4.5. Quoting I don't see how RFC 3676 § 4.5 is germane, safe for the fact that a soft line break is part of the conventional signature separator as described in RFC 3676 § 4.3. -- Grant. . . . unix || die ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
