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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re: Signature files
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Date: 19 Aug 89 01:57:52 GMT
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>I have no wish to begin a flame war on what people consider to be an acceptable
>signature file.

Damn.

>Does this restriction apply to mail sent through Internet and Usenet as well?
>I would imagine so, since the baud rates are the same.  Why, then, is there no
>restriction built into the mailing system for .signatures?

Well, lesse. I send you a mail message, you get one copy. I post this article,
a copy winds up on every USENET machine in the entire world. Little difference
in scale, no?