-=> Quoting mark lewis to Paul Edwards <=-

 ml> uh... how do you seperate signatures on internet email from user text?
 ml> answer? you don't... this is akin to the same thing you are wanting to
 ml> do in fido stuff... strip off the signatures so you can compile
 ml> directly without having to edit... usenet and internet mail =MAY= have
 ml> a -- (two dashes) "tearline" but it is not mandatory, technically
 ml> necessary, or uniform thru out in it's use... yes, many are two
 ml> dashes, there are also many that are three dashes and many that have
 ml> none at all... 

Actually, the .sig seperator is well documented as "--
" where
 is the newline character or characters.

It's not always followed, but it is the standard. And it tenmds to lose
that trailing space because of know problems in the way news is processed.

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