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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: It's time for news to get user-UNfriendly...
Message-ID: <2478@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 13:16:45 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2478
Posted: Sun Mar 17 13:16:45 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Mar-85 08:22:41 EST
References: <465@grendel.UUCP> <309@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Village
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Summary: 

In article <309@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>More seriously, long signatures have nothing to do with the .signature
>feature.  I append my signature within the csh script I have my EDITOR
>variable set to.  Much more flexible, and it doesn't cause the misbehavior I
>have gotten from one mailer from the .signature file's presence.  As for the
>weird names and organizations perpetrated by Chuq, Rich, et al., so what?  I
>can't imagine anyone being bothered by them unless the person suffers
>neurotic cravings for order.  They are no longer than the real names and
>organizations most of us use.

I should point out that my signature is very rarely longer than 5 lines, on
a very concious effort on my part. If signatures bother you, I'd suggest
that you hack rn, or vnews, or readnews, or whatever you read news with to
excise them. Standard news puts a '--' on the line before the signature for
just this very purpose, and I heartily suggest that people who add
signatures manually do the same. If you DO do this, please post it-- I'm
sure there are others who would appreciate doing without signatures as
well.

Just for random information, thought, the anti-signature types seem to be
outnumbered. For every piece of hate mail I get on my signatures, I seem to
get an average of two or three requests for references on the quotes or
other positive comments...

People who use signatures should also remember to keep them short-- there
is little reason for a signature over 4-6 lines, and things like pictures
(especially large pictures) and other space wasting cutsies get very tired
when they are never changed...

chuq
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Chuq Von Rospach, National Semiconductor
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