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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signature files
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Date: 21 Aug 89 16:59:52 GMT
References: <6870@rpi.edu>
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In article <6870@rpi.edu> sandro@itsgw.rpi.edu (Sandro Wallach) writes:
-  [...]
- I'm suggesting that signatures make usenet easier to use.  Signatures
- make it easier to recognize people.  I'm proud of everything I post;
- if you like some of my postings, you'll want to give my other postings
- more serious consideration.  And if you dislike my postings, then,
- too, you will remember me and be able to disregard my postings more
- easily.
- 
- A signature is like a letterhead with a memorable logo and slogan.
-  [...]

To disregard a posting based on its author, you have to know who the author
is *before* you read the text of the posting, i.e., while you are reading
the heading. 
The signature comes at the *end* of the posting, after you have read
the text.  By then it's too late.

Dick Grady              r_r_grady@att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4