Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: appending .signature file Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 17:20:01 GMT Message-ID: <1991Jun28.172001.22358@looking.on.ca> References: <1991May30.220430.5778@analog.com> <9106120620.13@rmkhome.UUCP> <10968@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991Jun25.171513.23761@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun25.203817.11346@looking.on.ca> Something like this isn't enough. While I have never liked signatures and feel they are abused, it is also clear that they are here to stay and should be formalized. Splitting the article into parts, while useful, is not the same as formalizing the signature, unless you have tags or some other indication that the last part (or one of the last parts) is the signature. Mind you, if the readers could be set to display From and Org lines at the bottom of an article (instead of/as well as) the top then we might have a lot less signature abuse. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473