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From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Date: Sun, 19-Mar-89 18:33:35 EST
Message-ID: <1989Mar19.183335.24928@sq.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: "-- " and .signature
Summary: What about manual signatures?
References: <11273@s.ms.uky.edu> <10986@well.UUCP> <385@logicon.arpa> <2962@looking.UUCP> <1989Mar19.181155.24357@sq.com>
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto

[Sorry if you see this twice - transient local problem.]

> If my newsreader kills signature lines, and you delete the -- in order
> to get around it, that's just going to anger me and get your userid
> put in my kill file ...

I don't delete the "-- " because there never was one there.  To me, "-- "
is the mark of *automatically inserted* signatures, which are almost always
constant for at least weeks for the same writer, and all too often much too
long.  My signatures are manually inserted, and vary according to the
subject of the mail message or news article I'm writing.

If you agree with the point of view of the quoted article, do you think
I should insert a "-- " before my signatures?


Mark Brader, Toronto	"Those who mourn for 'USENET like it was' should
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