Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: appending .signature file
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 17:20:01 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.172001.22358@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991May30.220430.5778@analog.com> <9106120620.13@rmkhome.UUCP> <10968@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991Jun25.171513.23761@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun25.203817.11346@looking.on.ca> <EMV.91Jun26112823@bronte.aa.ox.com>

Something like this isn't enough.   While I have never liked signatures
and feel they are abused, it is also clear that they are here to stay and
should be formalized.

Splitting the article into parts, while useful, is not the same as formalizing
the signature, unless you have tags or some other indication that the last part
(or one of the last parts) is the signature.

Mind you, if the readers could be set to display From and Org lines at the
bottom of an article (instead of/as well as) the top then we might have a lot
less signature abuse.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
