On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 08:52:13 -0400
"Mayayana"  wrote:

> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote
>
> | > I have over 200 'signatures' randomly selected.
> | > Some are quite short.
> |
> | There is an RFC that says you should keep them to four lines.
> |
>
>   That's an interesting decision. People rig their email
> to insert completely irrelevant text, not even knowing
> themselves what gets inserted, for no good reason,
> and there are politeness rules about how to do that?!

 Guidelines really, and they've been published for a while (based on
much older informal conventions going back to 1979). Here they are:

 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

 It covers a lot more than just signatures.

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