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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: .signature line limit
Message-ID: <2329@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 23:22:49 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2329
Posted: Tue Apr  7 23:22:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 05:09:55 EST
References: <1305@msudoc.UUCP> <21368@styx.UUCP> <268@herman.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
Lines: 26

As quoted from <268@herman.UUCP> by det@herman.UUCP (Derek Terveer):
+---------------
| Really folks, half the time you don't even need a signature -- I hardly ever
| use one, most of the info you need is already in the header anyway.  All i
| really need is the address to reply to and i get that automatically with either
| a followup or simply an "r" in mail.  Otherwise, if there doesn't happen to be
+---------------

Assuming, of course, that everyone's mail works.

Since cwruecmp's host tables are messed up, it takes major hacking to send to
non-UUCP sites.  Also, news arriving on ncoast often has horrendous Path:
lines, and pathalias files cause uumail and elm to dump core for some reason.
So I have to manually generate addresses, and .signatures are INVALUABLE for
this.  (I concede that my aXcess logo may be out of place.)

++Brando
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