Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: High Volume Calls For New Approach
Message-ID: <1988Dec8.172749.11645@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26469@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 88 17:27:49 GMT

In article <26469@bu-cs.BU.EDU> ptownson@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Patrick Townson) writes:
>As for signatures, yes they look lovely, but they may be getting too 
>expensive from a machine resource point of view....
>... For the posting itself, just sign the
>thing, like I always do, and will do now.
>
>Patrick Townson

Unfortunately, signatures containing network address, not just name, are
a practical necessity if you want people to be able to get mail to you.
The article-header information is *not* sufficient except in very favorable
cases.

The policy I follow is that it takes two lines to give my name, affiliation,
and network addresses.  Including physical address and phone number is
pointless, so there's no need to clutter up the signature with them.
(Actually, even affiliation is kind of marginal.)  Anything else I can cram
into those two lines is fair game. :-) :-)

At least my signatures get reactions -- I don't think there's been one in
the last six months that hasn't at least drawn mail, and some of them have
started real uproars among the narrowminded.
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