From: Hal <74076.1041@CompuServe.COM>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 09:03:59 PST
To: CYPHERPUNKS <CYPHERPUNKS@TOAD.COM>
Subject: .Sig suppression
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Chael> I'm
Chael> sure there are a couple, but I agree with your point that most BBS's on
Chael> any mail network append an identifying "tagline" or signature.  As a
Chael> matter of fact, in many nets it is a requirement that your system append
Chael> a tagline to all messages.  Incidentally, it is preceded often by "--"
Chael> on a line by itself.

I'd like to hear more about systems which do this.  What is the rationale
for adding the system name at the end?  Do these networks not use
Internet-style "From:" headers, so these automatic system-wide .sigs are
used for the same effect?

I guess there must be gateways between these bbs's and the internet,
for this issue to arise.  It's too bad that these gateways don't convert
the .sig info into a more conventional RFC-822 style Internet header.

Hal Finney

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