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From: WILLIAMS
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:40
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Well, OK, so I was wrong.  This one should REALLY be the last test.

I've been somewhat surprised by the details of how the posting program
(Emacs postnews, in my case) appends my .signature file to my post.
Apparently the signature is not appended if it's over four lines long,
and a line consisting of a double-dash separator (--) is automatically
inserted before the signature.  Also, to avoid having the signature
run up against the text of the post, the posting needs to end with a
blank line.  In case you're wondering why I'm going to the trouble of
putting all of this in a test message, it's because anyone reading
atl.test is likely to be something of a Usenet posting neophyte (like
myself), and I thought someone might benefit from the information.


-- 
Bryan Williams
Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA
bryan@prism.gatech.edu
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From: bryan@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLIAMS)
Newsgroups: atl.test
Subject: Test: take 4
Message-ID: <71492@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:40:33 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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