Re: My signature and its (missing) space

[Richard Riley]

"Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@ixod.org> writes:

> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:
>
>> Everybody tells me that my signature separator is "--", but it needs
>> to be "-- ". When writing my mails / my Usenet articles, it seems to
>> be "-- ", as I can get one space further on the right of "--", which is
>> something I cannot do on the other lines of my signature.
>>
>> My signature separator is
>> (setq gnus-signature-separator '("^-- $"))
>>
>> Do I have to modify it to make it as these persons want it to be?
>
> It seems as though they're wrong: Your signature separator seems to be
> fine, at least for the message of yours to which I'm replying here.
> (Though, I'd thought that variable is more to do with recognizing
> separators in others' messages; I don't know if it's relevant here.) 
> Can you point us to the message ID of a Usenet article of yours that got
> complained about?
>
> Mark

Do you have "--$" set as a valud sig sep too?

Luca is the only post here my sig snip does not remove - and when I
check his post there is no space there after the "--".

Possibly something in my config but I don't think so since snipping
works fine from other posts.

regards

r.