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>Bateau wrote:
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>>>>>>>PLEASE cut your header/sig. They are a PITA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>A what?
>>>>>
>>>>>Pain in the a**
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>>>>No they're not.
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>>>Actually, yes, they are. Very nice ASCII art, but rather inappropriate 
>>>for usenet.
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>> 
>> Hardly.
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>Not hardly. If you don't want people to continue to read your posts, by 
>all means leave the art in. Otherwise, drop it.
>
>Simple rules of 'Net etiquette. People don't want to scroll through a 
>bunch of extraneous garbage to get to the content. It's nice to look at 
>once, unnecessarily tedious thereafter.

People post enough crap in the groups I read without them replying to me
too.
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