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Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

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On Thu, Dec 24 2015,The Wanderer wrote:

> On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote:
>> 
>> [snipped 32 lines]
>
> This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that
> you've snipped at all (except maybe by leaving a blank line in between
> the quoted bits where the snip was), much less the number of snipped
> lines.

oh, that's a feature of Gnus mail client that I enabled,nothing else.
I believe the custom was to use something like [...]

[snipped 19 lines]

>> you mean, having my name after the signature with the above 
>> correction, right?
>
> Not quite; as you've written it, your name _is_ the signature.
>
> The '-- ' is not technically part of the signature; it's the signature
> _delimiter_, i.e., the thing which sits between the signature and the
> rest of the message. As such, it has to be the very first line of the
> signature block. (In practice it will usually be included in the
> signature file, but that's an implementation detail.)

Right, thanks for that.

sivaram
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removing TexLive Docs packages Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 07:50 +0100
  Re: removing TexLive Docs packages Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 16:00 +0100
    Re: removing TexLive Docs packages The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-12-23 16:40 +0100
      Re: removing TexLive Docs packages Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2015-12-23 17:20 +0100
      Re: removing TexLive Docs packages Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2015-12-23 17:20 +0100
      Re: removing TexLive Docs packages Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 13:50 +0100
        OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-12-24 16:00 +0100
          Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages) Anthony Mapes <anthonym7009@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 16:40 +0100
            Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages) Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-12-26 08:40 +0100
            Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages) Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-12-27 01:00 +0100
            Digital signatures Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-12-27 09:10 +0100
              Re: Digital signatures Anthony Mapes <anthonym7009@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 15:10 +0100
                Re: Digital signatures Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-12-27 16:10 +0100
          Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages) Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 07:40 +0100
    Re: removing TexLive Docs packages Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 13:40 +0100
  Re: removing TexLive Docs packages Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-12-23 22:50 +0100
    Re: removing TexLive Docs packages The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-12-24 03:20 +0100
      Re: removing TexLive Docs packages Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 05:20 +0100

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