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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: .signature file
Message-ID: <984@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 10:56:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: decuac.984
Posted: Fri Jul  4 10:56:57 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 05:35:38 EDT
References: <241@killer.UUCP> <454@hadron.UUCP>
Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD
Lines: 21
Keywords: help...
Summary: USENET carries news, not Mail.

In article <454@hadron.UUCP>, jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
> In article <241@killer.UUCP> tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) writes:
> >Can somebody help me out...I remember reading in the Usenet documentation
> >that one can make a .signature file that would be used to append a standard
> >signature to anything sent over Usenet.  ...

> For most mail "user agents" (interface, or user programs), you ...


"... anything sent over Usenet ..." *only* includes NEWS.  There is no
Usenet apart from the news transmittion.  Because people treat Usenet
and the UUCP network interchangeably, misconceptions like the above
from Tad grow.  He naturally assumed statements made about news
software carried over to mail, etc.

There is no such thing as a Usenet Address.  There is no mail traffic
over Usenet.  
-- 
Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center
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