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From: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signature files (LONG)
Message-ID: <1442@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 20 Aug 89 22:20:59 GMT
References: <2182@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> <73.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <73.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> mvac23!thomas@udel.edu writes:
[Lots of reasonable stuff deleted]
>Summary:  ADD a .sig with your e-mail addresses for as many networks as
>          you know (within reason, of course ;-).
>                         - tom
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So he said, while adding another 160 redundant equal signs.
I claim that the most widely spread nuisance is the use of extra delimiters
just to tell everybody that this is MY signature, now you study it!
If you have to tell us that this is the end of the article and the following
lines are my signature, then the article is probably no good at all, and
the best thing to do is not to post it at all.

-- 
Stefan Lindmark, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Email: d88-sli@nada.kth.se        Snail-mail: Don't even bother...
"Wearing your asbestos-suit too often may be fatal to your health"