Unfortunately, no, there isn't an accepted convention for tear-lines that cut off the bottom of a message. The top is handled adequately. Julf's anon.penet.fi remailer cuts off anything resembling a signature, using the convention that a -- line (or maybe an all-dash line?) is a signature, since some of the common mail and news programs use that, but the regular cypherpunks remailers didn't the last time I checked. It would be nice if there were an official syntax, either something formal and mimeish, or a simpler '--truncate here--' sort of line that gets retained across remailing so additional junk doesn't accrete. Bill # Bill Stewart AT&T Global Information Systems, aka NCR Corp # 6870 Koll Center Parkway, Pleasanton CA, 94566 Phone 1-510-484-6204 # email bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com billstewart@attmail.com # ViaCrypt PGP Key IDs 384/C2AFCD 1024/9D6465