Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: another nice one
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.234533.6880@sq.sq.com>
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 89 23:45:33 GMT

Kenneth L Moore writes (about his voluminous .signature):
> Also, I don't consider it useless garbage. It allows someone to easily
> identify me. That was its purpose and it seems to serve it pretty well.

No; its purpose is to help people to reply to you with electronic
mail.  That is why people are only counting the 240 characters of @-signs,
not the first line.
If your .signature had contained your Postal Address (for example),
I expect that no-one would have thought anything about it.

Isn't there something in one of the comp.newusers.renamed.today postings
about this?  (it used to be in mod.announce.newuser, I think, but I have
not received that sort of group since then, sorry).

Lee
-- 
Liam R. Quin, Unixsys (UK) Ltd [note: not an employee of "sq" - a visitor!]
lee@sq.com (Whilst visiting Canada from England)
lee@anduk.co.uk (Upon my return to England at Christmas)
