From: nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 17:33:05 PST
To: crys@eith.biostr.washington.edu (Crys Rides)
Subject: Re: Politics of Rmailers
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>E.> I can imagine it, but none exist.  This is mostly because the From:
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
>E.> field is supplied by the mailer and satisfies that requirement,
>E.> whereas requiring things in teh body of the mail message goes against
>E.> the grain of how the systems are used.
>*Bzzzzt* Wrong answer, thank you for playing.  The public access bbs
>system running out of Chapel Hill, automatically appends the same signature
>to all outgoing messages, and other sites are considering the same measures.

     I think what he's saying is that a signature that identifies which
*user* on the system as well as the system name does not exist.  I'm sure
there are a couple, but I agree with your point that most BBS's on any mail
network append an identifying "tagline" or signature.  As a matter of fact,
in many nets it is a requirement that your system append a tagline to all
messages.  Incidentally, it is preceded often by "--" on a line by itself.

Chael Hall

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