Signature Netiquette

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#20860

From: Leif Neve
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 16:45

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This is a gentle reminder that brevity can be as bad as verbosity in one's
signature. It's easy to see how the temptation arises in a news group of this
size to be strictly on a first name basis with the group.  But when someone
signs their submission with something like

    -steve-

it forces the reader to look at the header information to see if this is the same
Steve that he/she knows.

Thanks,
Leif Neve

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From: neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve)
Newsgroups: dc.dining
Subject: Signature Netiquette
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Date: 30 Mar 93 16:45:09 GMT
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