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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signature files
Message-ID: <714@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 21 Aug 89 22:27:53 GMT
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Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <9111@cbnews.ATT.COM> r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr,54354,mv,3a018,508 960 6182) writes:
>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 

By golly, how right you are, and I fell for it :-)  (Nothing personal)
 Slightly more seriously, I have been amazed at the bandwidth
dedicated to the ego-trip aphorisms [sic] and drawings in the
signatures.  But perhaps it is all in the name, anyway.  (Twinkle,
twinkle little flame, or is it for us all the same :-)
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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun