Improving removal of email signatures using Watched Words

They need to follow the official signature convention:

The Usenet standard RFC 3676 specifies that a signature block should be displayed as plain text in a fixed-width font (no HTML, images, or other rich text), and should be delimited from the body of the message by a single line consisting of exactly two hyphens, followed by a space, followed by the end of line (i.e., "-- \n" ).

This latter prescription, which goes by many names, including “sig dashes”, “signature cut line”, “sig-marker”, “sig separator” and “signature delimiter”, allows software to automatically mark or remove the sig block as the receiver desires.

Worth nagging the user about this if they don’t. But then users will put in Comic Sans signatures, so there is no god, and we are all ultimately being digested by an uncaring cosmos.

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