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real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:

Well done. :-)

>Any thoughts from anyone?

Three:

>Contributions are welcome from people who:
>use Macs; and live, work, study, or mean to visit the UK.

The reason I don't take US newsgroups is that the volume of messages is too
high. I'd therefore like to see the above tightened up to simply say
messages from those currently resident in the UK.

>Commercial advertising is unwelcome, although a company reference in a
>signature not exceeding four lines is acceptable.

I appreciate the idea of a sig-length limit, but the experience in
demon.local seems to suggest that this is counter-productive, sig wars
taking up far more bandwidth than any sig abuse. Or, at times, any other
messages ...

>and are also: essential for some UK Mac users, 
>important for many UK Mac users, or useful for all UK Mac users.

I'd also like to see this loosened. 'May be helpful to other Mac users'
would be sufficient for me. A lot of postings to demon.tech.mac don't meet
the above criteria but I'm nonetheless pleased that they're there. It's
impossible to predict what snippit of info or advice may prove useful in
the future, and one more than one occasion a very situation-specific
comment has been irrelevant to me at the time but very handy later.

However, I'd be happy to support the proposal in either original or
modified form.

Ben

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