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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Signature lines, this is going too far!
Message-ID: <1562@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 21:32:44 GMT
References: <428.24E71AB9@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG> <30649@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: esker@neptune.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
Lines: 43

In article <30649@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>Hello, new users! Today's lesson in USENET etiquette comes courtesy
>of Mr. Lawrence Esker:
>
    [Forged graphics deleted.]
>
>The lesson, new users, as illustrated above, is: don't use long signatures,
>and don't ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, use giant "graphic"
>letters.
>
>Thank you for your time.

If Bill had been on this usegroup for more than a week, unstead of deciding
to tell the whole word about his expertise on read news without reading
anything anyone else has to say, he would have seen my response that said
post was NOT from me.  It is another of those "forgeries" resulting from bad
software in the fidonet.

But since Bill can waste bandwidth with his motor-mouth with at least 6
messages on the same repetative subject, he must not realize that 6 useless
messages with one line signatures is worse than one good post and a 6 line
signature.

Now today's lesson, the NN recognizes signatures by <return>--<return>.  If
the sequence doesn't exist, Bill's kill file of signatures greater than 4
lines will not work.  Hence the booby prize, my real signature (which I've
decided to keep for a while longer in honor of Bill.)

Sorry for offending the innocent, but Bill's evangelistic preaching pissed
me off.  I realize I deserve all flames I get from the offended innocent.
Bill Wisner, shut the %#$& up!

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