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Subject: Re: What is Usenet?
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From: mikew@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Mike Whitaker)
Date: 15 Jun 91 11:08:03 BST
References: <28451CB8.1085@tct.com> <4772.284a9e90@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <284E2901.17E8@tct.com> <10899@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jun14.081116.4862@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
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In article <1991Jun14.081116.4862@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
> In article <10899@castle.ed.ac.uk>, aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:



> This is a good specification.  It also provides a cure for the primary
> source of doubled .signatures.  If the automatic signature goes in the
> file before the user who doesn't trust the software to work starts
> editing it, he will know it is there (or not there) and know whether
> he needs to insert it by hand.
> 
ANU_NEWS (on VMS) already does this.
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