FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Annoying sigs at end of posts (was Terry Birds "Could we please Learn to trim our posts"

writes:
>Dan Abel wrote:
>
>> In article > ,
>> Reg > wrote:
>>
>>>>nope - it's two dashes followed by a whitespace character: "-- "
>>>>
>>>
>>>Interesting. Mine doesn't contain a ws char in the sig file
>>>and it works fine.
>>
>>
>> Interesting, because it's there. Perhaps your newsreader is smart
>> enough to know that you intended the "--" to be a delimiter and changed
>> it to "-- ".
>>
>
>Precisely. Software developers have learned over the years to
>make things as easy as possible. You wouldn't want setting up
>a newsreader to be like configuring sendmail or something.
>Forcing a user to include the space isn't necessary.

what have we learned from this lesson boys & girls?

A. reg has never used a Microsoft product
B. reg has had indigestion all day
C. A whitespace character is kind of like a McGuffin - nothing at all
D. all of the above
E. ob food: when making a roux you may substitute whole wheat flour
but it is not recommended