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Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

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On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote:


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>>   Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours.
>
> The standard for signature delimiters is a line consisting of '-- ', as
> the first line of the signature block. Software which knows what it's
> doing will see this line and treat whatever comes after it specially -
> for example, leave it out when quoting a message for reply.
>
> If what he(?) really wants to do is treat his name as part of the post
> and any (un-snipped? bottom-quoted?) text below that as special, then
> his current signature delimiter is _almost_ correct - the "almost" being
> because he has a space before the '--' as well as after, so the
> delimiter won't be recognized by most software.

That's true.  I've never got around to correcting my siggy in my gnus
init file, the initial blank space needs to be removed.

>
> If he's aiming for a normal signature delimiter, however, he does indeed
> have it slightly wrong.

you mean, having my name after the signature with the above
correction, right?

 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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