Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Are signature lines distracting? Message-ID: <222@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 7 Jan 90 00:52:08 GMT References: <659@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <15068@bfmny0.UU.NET> <662@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <15070@bfmny0.UU.NET> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 19 In article <15070@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >Sometimes disclaimers can look silly, but when the author is posting >from a corporate or institutional site -- SOME of whose posters and >postings may in fact represent 'real' policy and be stuff the >institution can be held accountable for -- it's often thought >important for private, "recreational" posting to be dissociated from >policy. It may not even be a decision the individual poster made -- the >company or institution may have said so. It's generally understood that there's an implied disclaimer except in places like comp.newprod, or in certain "official responses" to questions posed in technical groups. -=EPS=- -- Opinions are the author's own, and do not necessarily represent those of San Francisco State University, its faculty, staff, or students, the Trustees of the California State University, or the State of California. (There's no more room for *my* .signature!)