In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is the '--' there ? It's been bugging me for years. Because that's what is used to tell programs that the body has ended and the signature follows. Why that was used instead of something else is most likely lost in the distant pass (first use by a program that *I* have found is from 1983, where Bnews added it to outgoing messages). -- J.B. Moreno
