Re: Please be careful with dashes

[Dave Stagner <dstagner@icarus.net>]

It should be noted that a small number of dashes on the left margin,
before the signature file, is considered "correct" software behavior
on the Internet, and many mail programs (including Netscape)
automatically add them.  So any software that's dying because of
dashes in the signature is incorrect, and ignoring a widely-used
informal standard.

-dave, professional unix programmer and occasional Internet consultant

By "beauty," I mean that which seems complete.
Obversely, that the incomplete, or the mutilated, is the ugly. 
Venus De Milo.
To a child she is ugly.       /* dstagner@icarus.net */
   -Charles Fort