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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 08/20/07 02:56
Shelly wrote:
>
> "nice.guy.nige" <nigel_moss@deadspam.com> wrote in message
> news:46c8db0f$0$97214$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net...
>> While the city slept, George Orwell (nobody@mixmaster.it) feverishly
>> typed...
>>
>> [snips]
>>
>> 1. Quote relevant parts of the text you are replying to (this is not
>> ironic,
>> I have snipped your text because I am not replying to anything in
>> particular)
>>
>> 2. Use a valid signature separator (1 line of text that has 2 hyphens
>> followed by a space. Nothing more, nothing less). This allows various
>> software to recognise the signature part of your message and strip it from
>> replies.
>>
>> 3. A 6 line signature is approx 2 more than the standard accepted maximum.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nige
>>
>> --
>> Nigel Moss http://www.nigenet.org.uk
>> Mail address will bounce. nigel@DOG.nigenet.org.uk | Take the DOG. out!
>> "Your mother ate my dog!", "Not all of him!"
>
>
> What are you talking about? I have no signiture on my post other than my
> name "Shelly"/
His response was not to one of your posts. D'oh!
But why did you quote *his* *valid* sig? Your software should auto snip
it.
> Shelly
But that does happen to be a sig that is not properly delimited, so you
still score 1 out of 3 on nige's fix-it list.
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