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15 years ago
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> Dear Miss Postnews:
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> How long should my signature be?
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> -- verbose@noisy
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Dear Verbose:
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Please try and make your signature as long as you can. It's much more
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important than your article, of course, so try and have more lines of
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signature than actual text.
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Try and include a large graphic made of ASCII characters, plus lots of cute
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quotes and slogans. People will never tire of reading these pearls of wisdom
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again and again, and you will soon become personally associated with the joy
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each reader feels at seeing yet another delightful repeat of your signature.
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Be sure as well to include a complete map of USENET with each signature, to
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show how anybody can get mail to you from any site in the world. Be sure to
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include ARPA gateways as well. Also tell people on your own site how to mail
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to you. Give independent addresses for Internet, UUCP, BITNET, Arpanet and
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CSNET, even if they're all the same.
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Aside from your reply address, include your full name, company and
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organization. It's just common courtesy -- after all, in some newsreaders
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people have to type an *entire* keystroke to go back to the top of your
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article to see this information in the header.
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By all means include your phone number and street address in every single
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article. People are always responding to usenet articles with phone calls
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and letters. It would be silly to go to the extra trouble of including this
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information only in articles that need a response by conventional channels!
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