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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: "-- " and .signature
Summary: "-- " is ugly and unnecessary
Message-ID: <385@logicon.arpa>
Date: 16 Mar 89 19:19:54 GMT
References: <11273@s.ms.uky.edu> <10986@well.UUCP>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <10986@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov> writes:
>On some systems, inews will append the "-- " and .signature; on other
>systems, Pnews or the equivalent does it.  And then there are the systems
>where they both do it.

One of the local mods I made to inews (and Pnews) was to remove the
automatic insertion of "-- " between the article and the signature.
Another mod was to remove the 4-line signature limit.  After all, this
is my article and it's going to look the way I want it to.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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