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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.misc
Subject: Re: USENET frowning upon graphics in signatures
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 20:08:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 20:08:16 1985
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Summary: possible software solution

Idea time.  2.10.3 news precedes the contents of ".signature" files with a
line with two dashes and a space.  Yet another option for readnews/vnews
could be introduced; use of the option would inhibit display of lines that
followed a "-- " line (where the presence of the line would be your clue that
a signature followed; there'd presumably have to be a new readnews/vnews
command that you could so you could read the signature if you wanted to).

If looking for "-- " lines is distasteful, another possibility would be to add
a "Signature-Lines" line to the header.

Now granted this solution would do nothing about the extra money, CPU time, and
disk space spent on overblown signatures.  Would it, however, solve one of the
problems of those who read news on slow terminals?  If so, I'll get on the case.
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