Re: to sig or not to sig?

From: Owen Rees (orees_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:56:04 +0100

On 30 Sep 2003 14:19:25 -0700, uem@mycroft.cmhnet.org (Sean G Gilley)
wrote in <ff37aa44.0309301319.6b5deb44@posting.google.com>:

>I don't have any problem knowing when a signature starts -- guess I don't
>really understand the problem there. And if you know when it starts, it
>doesn't really matter how long it is -- you just hit the key to go to the
>next message in the queue.

I don't want to have to move my finger off the space bar (page through
message to end then go to next unread) onto the 'n' key. Long signatures
are irritating, and I may choose to have my newsreader not show me posts
by people who use them. Network cost is not an issue to me, my reading
time is. 

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