Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!blodtoad From: blodtoad@pitt.UUCP (M. Anthony Kapolka 3) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Multiple addresses in .signature Keywords: signature, gateways, routing optimization Message-ID: <3524@pitt.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 15:07:13 GMT References: <1217@odyssee.UUCP> Reply-To: blodtoad@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (M. Anthony Kapolka 3) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science Lines: 46 In article <1217@odyssee.UUCP> pinard@odyssee.UUCP (Francois Pinard) writes: > >and I'm interested in an honest discussion on this. I'm still amazed >by the incredible frequency of those huge .signatures, with four, >five, six, seven addresses in them. Do people really check seven >mailboxes each morning, on X different machines? Why don't we have >*one* address each. This gives me the impression that everybody is >trying to solve everybody else's problems, instead of solving their >own. I think most people have the X-1 machines forwarding mail to the account that they use. Any reason why we shouldn't solve other's problems? I think most people on the net can specify their address more easily then they can keep track of their sites mailer software. >proceed to mail to them? Don't BizarreNet people know how to get out >to other nets, including the famous MyOwnNet? No. I have computer-ignorant friends who have trouble getting from bitnet to uucp. I have a bitnet account. Why cause them hassle? >is *my* problem, at least as Postmaster, to know how to get onto >Bitnet, Internet, CHUnet and elsewhere, and to automate this as far as >possible for my users. I'm not waiting, if someone from Bitnet writes You are a responsible postmaster. Many are too busy with other things to worry about a small percentage of the mail that passes through. >data) instead of spoiling every .signature, including mine. Is'nt >that reasonnable? Spoiling in what sense? Asthetics? The two lines of dashes in *your* .sig certainly aren't cost efficient. No offense intended, but I'd rather see two lines of funny addresses... >------------------- --------- ------------------------------------------ >Francois Pinard "Vivement C.P. 886, L'Epiphanie (Qc), Canada J0K 1J0 >pinard@odyssee.uucp GNU!" (514)588-4656; Odyssee R.A.: (514)279-0716 >------------------- --------- ------------------------------------------ M. Anthony Kapolka III / The Electric Eclectic UNIX Box kapolka@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu | 1200 Baud, 8-N-1, (412)-431-UNIX anthony@PITTVMS.bitnet | ..{cadre, allegra}!pitt!idis!formtek! ..{cadre, allegra}!pitt!kapolka / ditka!eklektik!anthony