Proposed policy: look like sig

[gwt@eskimo.com (George Taylor)]

Eric said,


>Given the objections I've received, I now amend my proposal from "sign
>your messages, or else" to "make something that looks like a
>signature, or else".  This has several consequences that I
>particularly like.

Wouldn't it "look like a signature" if I just copied at the end
of an article the actual signature of some other, signed, article?
That would be a true signature, just not mine and not for this
article.  It sounds as though it would meet the suggested requirement,
but I don't see how it would accomplish the goals.  I could do it
with a macro, or maybe use a special .sig for posts to this list.
It wouldn't add anything to my software.

What am I missing?

-George