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From: jef@unisoft.uucp (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: A great way of hosing the 4-line signature limit.
Message-ID: <485@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 15:18:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 15:18:37 1987
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In the referenced article, henry@garp.UUCP (Henry Mensch) wrote:
>The sad, pathetic truth is that if those who put significant time and
>thought into things like beating the four-line signature and fooling
>inews would put that time into the substance of their postings, the
>restrictions on included text and .signature size probably wouldn't be
>necessary.

The sad, pathetic truth is that if those who put significant time and
effort (but insignificant thought) into the 50% rule and the four-line
signature rule had instead put that time into implementing workable
solutions to the problems, then the obnoxious workarounds would not
be necessary.
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Jef

    Jef Poskanzer  unisoft!jef@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu  ...ucbvax!unisoft!jef
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