The difference between a loaded and an unleaded firearm is just semantics, but the cadre in boot camp thought that it was an important difference. Something about all of they paperwork that they didn't want to fill out after an "unloaded" weapon going off.
I would be happy if both the -- sp signature separator and the ">" quoting convention were MUST, but that's not going to happen. We need something like Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Netkeeping_Seal_of_Approval>, but for e-mail software. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Grant Taylor [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 12:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: LISTSERV Noise? On 1/27/22 7:05 AM, Eric D Rossman wrote: > Yeah, yeah. Semantics. :) In some ways it's not /just/ 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. Actually, many RFCs are considered standards track and are the definitive source for some things. > 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." Maybe ~> probably. I would actually be quite happy to find an RFC that has a SHOULD or MUST for the "-- " standard. If for not other reason than to print out, roll up, and bop some people about the head / shoulders with. ;-) -- 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
