Date   : Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:30:14 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Signitures

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:36 -0700, Saddler, Chris wrote:
> Returning to the original OT subject of this thread, where are the rigid
> rules of news group message format defined?

Do you mean news (i.e. usenet), or email? 

Email seems to be covered by RFC822, and news (the message format) by
RFC1036 - however a quick glance doesn't show either of them to mention
anything about signatures. I think it's just something of an unspoken
standard that '--' on a line by itself is a signature separator - but as
far as I can tell there's nothing in the specs to say that, nor the
actual purpose of the signature...

cheers

Jules