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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Please keep your signature file really, really short
Message-ID: <5365@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jun-83 02:37:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.5365
Posted: Wed Jun  8 02:37:31 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 04:58:16 EDT
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Somebody named Gene Spafford recently rather foolishly used net.test
(When are people going to learn that net.test should never, ever be
used except by the authors of the news software, and that's about two
people right now) to test signature files, which are undocumented for
some reason.  He has put in a 5 or 6 line signature with a dozen ways
to reply to him.  You will note my file is one line long.  This is
because these signatures are getting rediculous, and rather a waste
of other people's money since they are sent over hundreds of links.
Please folks, let the news software and the mail aliasing or internet
programs worry about how to reply.  We already have a huge header
full of such information.  Please don't include it again.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304