rswail • 2 days ago

My email sig (remember those) is:

    --
    "Design depends largely on constraints." - Charles Eames
Remember when email sigs were limited to 4 lines and had to have the double hyphen and a space on a line above?

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imp0cat • 2 days ago

The dash, dash, space is still a defacto standard signature separator.

OJFord • 2 days ago

> Remember when email sigs were limited to 4 lines and had to have the double hyphen and a space on a line above?

I do not - sounds like a specific email client's thing rather than something in any IETF RFC.

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rswail • 1 day ago

It's from the pre-web internet of usenet, smtp and uucp in the 1980s.

Back in the deep dark past of bang email addresses and HOSTS.TXT when all Australian email addresses had !munnari at the end and everyone knew about !decvax and how to connect to it.

thom • 2 days ago

This was more or less universal in the days of Usenet.

myself248 • 2 days ago

Remember when echomail taglines were supposed to be a single line of no more than 70 characters?