Date   : Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:21:26 +1300
From   : Bill Keesing <zz9pluralzalpha@...>
Subject: Re: Signitures

At 06:36 a.m. 16/10/2004, Saddler, Chris wrote:

>Returning to the original OT subject of this thread, where are the rigid
>rules of news group message format defined?

There is no "rigid" rule AFAIK. Most decent email and usenet clients remove 
any message content found after the -- that forms the separator between 
post and sig. But it is considered to be good netiquette, as are other 
things like not top posting to email and usenet messages, quoting the 
message you are responding to, not "shouting" by typing everything in caps