curprev20:0820:08, 2 August 2020 Richwalestalkcontribs 10,990 bytes+830 →Signature block: updating, correcting, and clarifying references to Internet RFCs: the strongest statement that can currently be made here is that "there is a long-standing convention" to use the dash-dash-newline signature separator; this is not labelled in any current RFC with "MUST", or even "SHOULD", as required in Internet RFCsundo
curprev19:1819:18, 2 August 2020 Richwalestalkcontribs 10,160 bytes+282 →Standard delimiter: clarifying that the Usenet RFC standards apply only to Usenet news articles, not to email messages; the dash-dash-space signature delimiter is widely used in email, but only as a de-facto convention, not as a result of any official standards requirementundo
curprev19:0519:05, 2 August 2020 Richwalestalkcontribs 9,878 bytes−127 →Standard delimiter: removing erroneous claim: RFC 3676 does not, in fact, say specifically that a signature block should be in a fixed-width font; the only mention of fixed fonts in RFC 3676 says "Text/Plain is usually displayed as preformatted text, often in a fixed font" (sec. 3)undo
