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my team has parsed over a billion emails in the past 3 years auto-updating our clients' address books. the "-- " is indeed the standard and most common ever si
by Brad2earth 12y ago
my team has parsed over a billion emails in the past 3 years auto-updating our clients' address books.
the "-- " is indeed the standard and most common ever since Usenet in 94, but of course we've built a ton of variation within our algorithms to handle every thing else you might see.
Feel free to check out our infographic on what you'll find in the average professional's email signature: http://www.evercontact.com/blog/infographic-the-anatomy-of-an-email-signature.1.html http://www.evercontact.com/blog/infographic-the-anatomy-of-a...
- 8_hours_ago 12y agoFYI: the infographic shows the delimiter as "--" instead of "-- "
- e12e 12y agoAs I mentioned elsewhere, that's more than a small nitpick, because something like: XI -- Chapter XI... Is perfectly fine in text-email -- so adding the space on the end is very useful -- as you'd rarely need to escape "-- " on a line by itself -- not so for just "--".