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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Why do people put their postal addresses in their signatures?
Message-ID: <2598@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 21:03:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  1 21:03:49 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 04:37:46 EST
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Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta
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In the 2.10 version of inews (at least) if you have a file named
".signature" in your home directory, its contents will be appended
to the end of any news article you post.  It will be separated from
the body of the news article by a line of three dashes:
---

I have yet to see this documented anywhere.

Also, under CSNet software, the first line of the .signature file
is taken as your "true name" when sending mail with the MMDF "send"
facility.

-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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