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From: meg@m-net.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: .signature line limit
Message-ID: <1156@m-net.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 00:02:14 EST
Article-I.D.: m-net.1156
Posted: Wed Apr  8 00:02:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 00:20:11 EST
References: <1305@msudoc.UUCP> <21368@styx.UUCP>
Reply-To: meg@m-net.UUCP (Meg Geddes)
Organization: M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <21368@styx.UUCP> mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) writes:
>
>Automatic signatures are an idea whose time has passed. I've seen too
>damn many half-page cute drawings, boxed outlines (can you imagine how
>painful those are at 1200 bps or lower?), repetitive quotations from

As someone who has to dial through two systems simply to access news, and 
whose resulting net baud rate is about 800 bps or less, I can attest that
some of these .signatures are *really* a pain.  Four lines 80 characters
each should be MORE than enough, if you really have to give out more info
stick it in the body of your article.  Gack.


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	Meg Geddes M-NET, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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