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From: lyndon@ers.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: A four-line-limit para-proposal
Message-ID: <145@ers.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 15:45:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: ers.145
Posted: Wed Aug  5 15:45:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 09:31:09 EDT
References: <479@unisoft.UUCP> <1171@rayssd.RAY.COM> <836@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Nexus Computing Corporation
Lines: 29
Summary: Can't see the forest for the trees?

In article <836@klipper.cs.vu.nl>, biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes:
> If inews rejects a .signature, I think it should cook one up itself,
> if possible. Otherwise those articles go out unsigned. It might
> produce something like
> 
> <name from /etc/passwd>		<loginname>@<machine-name>

When I read this article, the second line on my terminal read:

From: biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux @ VU Informatica, Amsterdam)

...

MOVED by lyndon@ncc.UUCP THAT signatures be removed from the next
	release of Bnews.

If it's that damned important, you can type it in by hand. And don't
flame me that it takes "too much time" or any other such crap - I've
been entering "signatures" manually for several months without having
my fingers fall off.

Do all you people use rubber stamps to "sign" your correspondance?
And of those of you who do, how many are longer than four lines?
And do they contain "disclaimers"? And how much do you spend getting
a saying put on the stamp every month (week, year)?

--lyndon   ihnp4!alberta!ncc!lyndon

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