Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: "-- " and .signature
Message-ID: <2980@looking.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 17:45:50 GMT
References: <11273@s.ms.uky.edu> <10986@well.UUCP> <385@logicon.arpa> <2962@looking.UUCP> <1989Mar19.181155.24357@sq.com> <1989Mar19.183335.24928@sq.com>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Not all signatures are valueless and not all long signatures
are from idiots, but the correlation is that way.  So when my newsreader
kills such articles, I will miss out a bit -- but that's net reading.

After all, not all posters in talk.politics.misc post noise, but I can't
afford to read it.

If people deliberately misclassify their articles in the hope of getting
more people to read them, I have little time for those articles.  Oh,
I might miss something.  But you have to filter out a lot of news to
read any of it.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473