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From: smk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Legal question on signatures
Message-ID: <87@axiom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 15:28:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 15:28:32 1985
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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
>	Steve, if the telltale squiggles are ``hard to see'', what good do
> they do?

If someone tries to write my signature and thinks any ol' bump and turn
will do, I can spot it as a forgery.  The squiggles ARE visible, but 
not too pronounced, so that I have a safeguard if a bank ever said another
signature was mine.  I think it is easier to reproduce those signatures
that are very clean;  the ones in which each line is big and clearly seen.
I used to do that with kicks to my mother's signature which was always very
nicely written.  Of course, she didn't like it, but she never had to sign
a bad report card when I was a kid.  :-)
-- 
	--steve kramer
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