Daniel Keep wrote:
grauzone wrote:
By the way, why do people feel the need to "sign" their posts, even
though the news protocol already provides a "From: " field, that not
only makes the signature redundant, but is also better to spot, is
recognized by the news readers, and usually provides more information?
Force of habit? Holdover from the days when we wrote things on bits of
pulped trees which didn't have a convenient "From:" field.
Well even one hundred years ago they'd sign a letter even though the
name was in the letterhead and also on the envelope.
What I want to know is why people quote multi-page messages only to add
a single line to the bottom that's only tangentially related to the
message they're responding to.
Worse: they quote a large message and they insert a line somewhere in
the middle of it.
Andrei
