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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signature files
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Date: 20 Aug 89 20:56:52 GMT
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Organization: Earl's Reptile Farm and Cheesy Dinosaur Park
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>I learned to recognize Rich $alz's postings quickly because he has such
>a distinctive way of writing his name.  For him, "/r$" is enough of a
>signature.   I'm having trouble remembering what Bill Weisner is like,
>although his name does ring a bell.

Yes, apparently you are. That's "Wisner." But there are a couple of easy
guidelines you can follow to recognize me. If you see either of the following
two lines in an article header, you'll know it's 100% genuine Wisner:

From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Organization: Earl's Reptile Farm and Cheesy Dinosaur Park

Simple enough, hmm? It could be said -- in fact, I will do so -- that it's
desirable to know who wrote a message before you read it, not after. So,
read the header. It's simple, it's fun, the whole family can do it.

(You might say that my Organization: line serves much the same function as
Sandro Wallach's signature. You might be right. There are only so many unique
ways to type one's initials. And of course, Rich has the not-very-lucrative
dollar-sign-in-signature rights, which leaves us with one less ASCII character
to be unique with. An Organization header, on the other hand .. sixty-five
characters of unbridled creativity, or, in my case, shameless plagiarism.)