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Subject: 
Re: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:35:45 GMT
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> > 
> > 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:
> 
> Me neither.  IMHO, having or not having a sig is a very personal choice, not
> a mandate by any stretch of the imagination.  Probably only about half* of
> all the people on the net even use sigs.
> 
> Personally, I don't use a sig because I find it much easier to read and
> digest people's posts quickly when they don't use sigs.  While it's not
> really any of my business whether JW uses a sig, I'm perfectly happy that
> he doesn't.


Maybe someone can enlighten me, but I always considered
"--Todd"
to be the electronic equivalent of a "signature."

> 
> > [...]
> > So while I agree that it may be annoying to not be responded to as to
> > why not when you ask that JW start using one, it just doesn't seem that
> > important to me, Certainly not one of the line items on a banishment
> > bill of particulars!!!
> > [...]
> 
> Certainly not!


I agree here.  It's the content of the posts, not the form, that really causes
upset.



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  Re: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET
 
(...) Oh. OK, yeah, I guess in the context of news posts, it could be considered an electronic equivalent of a real-life signature. But I thought we were talking about sigs (a.k.a. signature files). --Todd (27 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET
 
(...) Me neither. IMHO, having or not having a sig is a very personal choice, not a mandate by any stretch of the imagination. Probably only about half* of all the people on the net even use sigs. Personally, I don't use a sig because I find it much (...) (27 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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