From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!ihuxs!steffen Newsgroups: net.news Title: signing news articles Article-I.D.: ihuxs.129 Posted: Thu May 27 12:20:13 1982 Received: Sat May 29 01:31:12 1982 After seeing many "forgot to sign my previous article" news articles, this common mistake has prompted me to suggest that the various news submitting commands (postnews for B netnews) automatically append the file $HOME/.signature to an article. The mail system I use does this and it is VERY handy. If you wanted to get fancy, you could have a .net.signature file, a .btl.signature file, etc., to handle address variations. Joe Steffen