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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Suggested New Feature For All Newsreaders
Summary: Signature Insanity
Message-ID: <4585@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 6 Dec 89 22:05:32 GMT
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Reply-To: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
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Having just suffered for the nth time thru an incredibly stupid
and verbose .sigfile, I'd really love to see a .sig-filterer for
all known newsreaders.  The informal (note that word) standard
seems to that a .sig is anything following '--' on a line by 
itself, so that'd be good enough for me.

An end to spurious mail: please don't followup or email me that
I should complain to the peretrators or their sysops; that's just
pissing upwind.  Also, followups saying that TuttiFruttiNetNews
already has this feature are kind of a waste.  My point is that
*all* news reading programs would better off with this.  I've
suggested the feature to the author of my favorite, and am posting
this in hopes others feel the same need and will do the work or
make the patches.