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From: packer@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Are signature lines distracting?
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Date: 5 Jan 90 13:07:46 GMT
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Reply-To: packer@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
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The various network etiquette guides suggest that long signature
files--more than a name and address--are bad manners.

In the newsgroups that are supposedly devoted to serious topics,
they are highly distracting when they have some aphorism, even
if it's only three or four words. I'm amazed that anyone who
has obviously spent time composing some well written statement
would junk it up at the end with anything beyond his name.
When was the last time you saw a brand new BMW adorned with
bumper stickers? Even an organization name is a distraction.

Maybe people who do this are the kind who can read while watching
TV.

(This posting is obviously not a "question", but I can't 
find any better newsgroup for it.)