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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Signatures on postings: Henry's Law
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 13:39:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 22 13:39:23 1985
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<>The larger* the signature, the higher the probability of having it
appear twice (or more) at the end of the posting.
  *graphics in a signature count double in deciding the size.

(This empirical law was observed in an exhaustive & exhausting
survey of huge number of articles posted to a ridiculously large
number of assorted newsgroups.)
--henry schaffer  n c state univ