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From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: It's time for news to get user-UNfriendly...
Message-ID: <465@grendel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 11:08:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 11:08:11 1985
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> From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
>            ... massively abused.   There is a .signature feature.  It's
> used to post quotes, little pictures and people's postal addresses.  Easily
> tens of thousands of dollars of phone bills have now been spent ...

A welcome addition to the next version of net news software
(which would probably be hacked back out!) would be to include only
one line from the .signature file.  All of us have seen many, many
postings with more "signature" than "body."  What a waste...
-- 
Fred Avolio      {decvax,seismo}!grendel!avolio      301/731-4100 x4227