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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Abuse of the Net (stupid .signatures)
Message-ID: <606@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 03:21:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: adobe.606
Posted: Thu Jun 20 03:21:36 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 00:53:43 EDT
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Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
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Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto
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I can't believe the crap that some people append to EVERY SINGLE
ARTICLE they post.  The line feeds in net.jokes are bad enough,
but they are but 25 bytes (or so), whereas some of the ridiculous
.signatures I see at the bottom of (usually one-line additions to
somebody else's postings, which are, naturally, included in full
as if we needed to read the whole thing again) postings which are
poor to begin with.  AAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHH.

I don't mind something cute.  And I'm in favor of including the
CONTEXT of whatever article it is that you are replying to, but
let's exercise some discretion, folks.  There are those of you
out there who do it just right.  A one or two line signoff, with
a quote from Bob Dylan or somebody else who Knows, and your
dad-blamed name, never mind all the pictures of horses and lengthy
descriptions of where you work!

(never one to be a hypocrite myself:-)
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