Alcohol tester

And to follow up I actually looked at what my news server is serving, rather than what my news client is seeing, and the sig-sep is identical for Paul and SteveH.

cheers, clive

Except I missed the fact that Paul is posting via a server which puts a sig on itself, thus there are two sigs. Not sure what you're supposed to do there - Paul, may I suggest not using such a pikey server?

cheers, clive

My reader shows his sig sep plus name and URLs in the body of the post, with the actual sig as:

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No, but if you're checking your residual alcohol level in the morning it's unlikely to be on the way up.

Nope.

Ah, that'll be resolved this week, when I drop Teranews and return to Gradwell - a far superior service.

Can you tell me what's wrong with it then?

"dash-dash-space-newline"

Looks like that to me too - but for some reason it doesn't separate the sig, which has to be bad in a sig separator, I'd have thought.

Nope again - doesn't work for Agent, though.

Hmm, you're right.

I'd assumed that either the space was originally missing, or was getting stripped off by your client at some point, or the server (when adding the second sig). It appears that slrn just doesn't like multiple separators in the one post.

Ah! Of course - that'll be it. It strips the extra one and assumes job done. How to get round it is another kettle of monkeys, though.

I've already done so. If you use a crap news server which doesn't support signatures properly, you'll have to drop your use of them.

clive

Yep, already said I'm going to.

Others are still trying to score points though...

And you're still posting unwanted spam all over Usenet.

Until you get your news-server sorted so you have a proper sig, you're leaving yourself open to abuse reports.

ONly to the mews-server causing the issue...

No, because it's originating from you.

You *know* there's a problem causing the spam to appear in the body of your posts, but you insist on doing it.

There's something up with it because my newsreader doesn't recognise it.

But:

It's YOUR software that's reading stuff below the first sig-sep as sill being body...

So if I put all my spam after the sig it no longer counts as spam?