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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: .signature file
Message-ID: <463@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 00:06:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: hadron.463
Posted: Wed Jul  9 00:06:17 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jul-86 05:13:23 EDT
References: <241@killer.UUCP> <454@hadron.UUCP> <984@decuac.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 28
Keywords: help...
Summary: Understand what people are saying.

In article <984@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>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,

Thanks for your clarification of the issue (somewhat).  However,
give the kid a break.  He's obviously a new user and doesn't know
the language yet.  Most of the replies either were couched in
cant or addressed something totally other than what he was, under
his verbal faux pas, really asking.  As for me, well, shame on me
for writing a shorter article and not including the Unix Lexicon.
[;-)]
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
			jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)