[net.news] Signatures on postings: Henry's Law

hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (11/22/85)

<>The larger* the signature, the higher the probability of having it
appear twice (or more) at the end of the posting.
  *graphics in a signature count double in deciding the size.

(This empirical law was observed in an exhaustive & exhausting
survey of huge number of articles posted to a ridiculously large
number of assorted newsgroups.)
--henry schaffer  n c state univ