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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Legal question on signatures
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 06:17:48 EDT
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From: smk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)

>I sympathize with you.  People take my signature as Stan Kran sometimes.
>Let them!  I can sign my name *fast*, it's always garbled, but it's also
>very hard to duplicate because there are some telltale squiggles in
>certain places that are hard to see (I write very small also).
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I've always heard advice along the lines that a legible signature is harder
to forge.  I think that was meant to still allow for a distinctive style --
not just writing your name the way you would any ole word, but not just
a squiggle or a bird's nest, either.
	Steve, if the telltale squiggles are ``hard to see'', what good do
they do?
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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