On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 04:48:37PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Why did we do that? [..] It's not obvious to me that that was a good idea. Maybe it's better to distinguish the list's "signature" from a poster's signature by using a different separator.
+1
Sender signature != ML footer.
So, as Stephen says, the separators used to indicate those two distinct kinds of text block should be different.
Incidentally, if anyone reading this is working on an RFC that might have room to specify a standard for ML footers (or at least ML footer separators), please do!
Thanks :)
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