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Re: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET
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Date: 
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:40:55 GMT
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John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote:
I'm not sure I buy this. What value, exactly, does a signature bring? It
seems decorative, and the value is mostly to the appender being able to
make:

I think it's mostly a netiquete problem which compounds JW's other netiquete
deficiencies.  Maybe it's just nice to know there is a real person behind the
post who takes responsibility for what he or she has just said.  By itself I
doubt it would be a big deal, as I imagine there are others on LUGNET who post
without signing (or leave out caps and punctuation) and people overlook it.

Having a sig does nothing, imo, to make a message more personal or
make it clearer that a person had something to do with it.  My
newsreader injects sig.txt into my messages every time I post on - I
have nothing to do with it.

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  Re: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET
 
Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37BAC40E.8DA1F2...ger.net... (...) I think it's mostly a netiquete problem which compounds JW's other netiquete deficiencies. Maybe it's just nice to know there is a real person behind the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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