On Tue 05 Apr 2005 10:43:40p, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:34:19 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
>> On 6 Apr 2005 06:58:47 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > While you're checking... Your "sig" is not coming through on your
>> > posts as a sig, but as part of your message. (See below). You
>> > should check on that too.
>> >
>> > You might try the following, just as an experiment... On the line
>> > preceding your sig, insert "--" (no quotes) in the first character
>> > position. Most newsreaders interpret this as the beginning of the
>> > sig.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the tip, I had no clue! I deleted the quotes... easier
>> than readjusting the already altered lines.
>>
>>
>>
>> How does it look now?
>>
> I just read another group.... and my sig posted as it should have
> here. Now, I'm totally clueless because I didn't do anything to it
> between news groups!
>
>:/
>
>
> We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our
> election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude"
>
> If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in
> our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our
> amusements, for our calling and our creeds...we [will] have no time to
> think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to
> obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the
> necks of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human
> governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a
> precedent for another till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere
> automatons of misery.
>
> And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation
> follows that and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
>
> Thomas Jefferson,
> Author of The Declaration of Independence, Founding Father and Third
> U.S. President
>

Okay, here's the thing. The content of your sig looks fine now.

However, there is usually a separator; e.g., "--", placed between the
message and the sig content which tells a newsreader where the sig begins.
The purpose of this only becomes apparent the you reply to the post. In
the reply, the sig should be dropped.

For example, when you click to reply to my post, everything beginning with
my name and below should automatically be omitted from the quoted text.

Does that make sense?

What news reader are you using?

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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