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From: rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signature lines
Message-ID: <237@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Aug 89 09:03:36 GMT
References: <428.24E71AB9@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG> <1348@abaa.UUCP> <30748@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1989Aug20.025847.3430@twwells.com> <1563@abaa.UUCP> <2146@erix.ericsson.se>
Reply-To: rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham)
Organization: Dept. of Veterinary Pathology, University of Edinburgh
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In article <2146@erix.ericsson.se> euatdt@euas11g.ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist) writes:
>
>I suppose I should know better than to get involved in this rather fiery
>discussion, but there's one aspect of the .signature file problem which
>I haven't seen anybody mention as yet.
...
>Following the flames thrown at the guy who proposed keeping lines down to
>79 characters, I realize that there are many netters who would never
>DREAM of letting the limitations of other users affect their practices, but
>remember what the guy said: you put the signature there as a message to
>other readers. If they can't read it, YOU have failed to get that message
>across to them and that is because YOU didn't understand the full
>implications of what you were doing.
>
>/Torsten

Despite the flippant reply from someone pretending to be "A.Dweeb"
(clearly a frustrated user of eunet.jokes), your article was a timely
reminder that one should think of others when using the news system -
well said (or perhaps I should say written)!  Too many users seem to
think that their terminal is the centre of the Universe, and rush for
their flameguns whenever anyone else dares to have an opinion ever so
slightly different from theirs, or makes a trivial blunder in
netiquette, spelling etc.  However if newusers stick around, wrap up
warmly in their asbestos suits, they will find that there are a few
helpful people on the net who will offer useful advice, or if they have
a valid complaint, they will explain it courteously, as Torsten has just
done.

Richard


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