Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton 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 Lines: 13 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