Previous Replies separator is not RFC-compliant

Continuing the discussion from Imdb embeds broken on other sites:

I just received two mails with practically the same content (that’s weird) due to a response linked above and noticed:

My mail application KMail doesn’t strip off the signature when I reply. The issue seems to be the separator.

KMail claims that RFC compliant is -- (dash dash space on a single line).

I think I found the source: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt (4.3)

However, Discourse uses “—” (triple dash without space) as a separator.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/cad7fc10620ac8daaf4e563438bc6574f63f5784/lib/email/receiver.rb#L146

This issue has been raised before:

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I guess it doesn’t really matter since most people (except geeks) use HTML views :pizza:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/86819f08c3294313b9b414f3c38644e4a60284c8

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