On Fri, 8 May 1998, David Norris wrote:

> However, a comment should not contain a series of hyphens (e.g. --, ---, etc
> ) other than to open and close the comment.

	Yesy, that's what the spec says, but many people do it anyway,
	e.g.:

		<!----------- Hello ---------------->

	I coded to handle practice rather than be pedantic.  HTML tools
	should be as forgiving as HTML itself is.

	- Paul J. Lucas
	  NASA Ames Research Center		Caelum Research Corporation
	  Moffett Field, California		San Jose, California
	  <pjl AT ptolemy DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov>