[svlug] Install fest questions.

[Seth David Schoen]

Dave Zarzycki writes:

> Besides, doesn't PGP or some other program
> use "-- " to symbolize the start some kind of encoding?

It contains the string "-- ", but not as the entire text of a line (or even
the beginning of a line).  My program doesn't match "-- " anywhere; it must
be a full line (regexp "^-- $").

AFAIK essentially all mailers at one tiem used the "-- " convention.  "fuit,
fuit ista quondam..."

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