Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!stcns3!dave
From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: The infamous .signature (was .*sex.*blah)
Message-ID: <462@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 26 May 88 13:31:33 GMT
References: <4120@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1988May22.081555.21137@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: STC Pty Ltd, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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In article <1988May22.081555.21137@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>An amusing sidelight on this .signature business is that Mr. Levy, living
>in a country whose Constitution (as I recall it) says that it's the right
>of the accused to be told the charges against him and to confront his
>accusers face to face, restricted the distribution of his article to the
>US and didn't bother sending me a copy.  I knew he was steamed up about
>the subject since we'd exchanged some private mail about it, but it was
>a bit surprising to start getting letters of support without having seen
>the posting that provoked them.

Hey!  Would someone please re-post that article, with a WORLD distribution?
Quite a few people outside the good ol' US of A would like to see it...
Yep - it's pretty weird seeing the followups without seeing the original...

(Hi Henry!  Unfortunately, Australia don't get no sci.space no more...)

>-- 
>NASA is to spaceflight as            |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>the Post Office is to mail.          | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry

Gadzooks, all this fuss and bother over a .signature?  Oh well, here's one
that has caused some dissent (and support!) in various quarters:

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel-STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz
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