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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Please keep your signature file really, really short
Message-ID: <192@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 08:43:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  9 08:43:19 1983
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Organization: Georgia Tech, School of ICS
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I guess I should apologize to Brad Templeton if my ".signature"
file upset him so much as to label me as "foolish."  Most
people need more information than that to make such a judgement.
However, his comments do raise a few points:
	1) I didn't know that "net.test" was only for "a select few";
	is that why he was reading it?  I wanted to test something,
	and the newgroup was there.
	2) The article cancellation feature in "readnews" does
	not seem to work.  I tried to cancel my submission after
	I had seen what it did.
	3) Why is the ".signature" file undocumented in "postnews"?
	That same file is used by the MMDF "send" program.
	4) I use the same signature file for mail over 3 different
	networks and that requires 3 different types of return
	address.  Since uucp mail is not always reliable, and since
	there are two distinct paths to here, I have 2 uucp addresses.
	The first line is my "signature" and I've been using it over
	CSNet, etc. for many, many months.
	5) If you're concerned about costs you might complain
	about some of the other stuff that goes out over news.

By the way, if you have another bad day and want to grump about
something like this, may I suggest we meet at sunup in net.flame
with metaphors drawn?

Not afraid to sign myself:
"The soapbox of Gene Spafford"

Spaf @ GATech		        (CS Net)
Spaf.GATech @ UDel-Relay        (ARPA)		 School of ICS
...!{sb1, allegra}!gatech!spaf  (uucp)      	 Georgia Tech
...!duke!mcnc!msdc!gatech!spaf                   Atlanta, GA 30332
-- 
"The soapbox of Gene Spafford"

Spaf @ GATech		        (CS Net)
Spaf.GATech @ UDel-Relay        (ARPA)		 School of ICS
...!{sb1, allegra}!gatech!spaf  (uucp)      	 Georgia Tech
...!duke!mcnc!msdc!gatech!spaf                   Atlanta, GA 30332