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Re: [ietf-822] "--" first in lines to indicate start of signature

Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> Mon, 04 January 2016 20:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-822] "--" first in lines to indicate start of signature
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> For the old school Fidonet mail network, the Fidonet Technical Standards provided early guidelines.

I have no experience with Fidonet. It seems like an interesting community, with lots of in-text special rules and procedures. IETF standards cannot adopt much of this, but some of it may be useful. I have tried to write some RFCs which are guidelines more than standards, but never got them finished enough to have it published as an RFC.

Examples of such un-finished documents, which I have written but never got ready for RFC status, are:

The IETF Golden rules: http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/golden-rule/
Putting tables in e-mail messages: http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/tables-in-email.html
Advice on implementing html-formatted e-mail messages: http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/mhtml-info.html
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Professor emeritus Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/

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