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I think you're right, Roger. A sig is a signature, while a quoted heading is something else--an epigraph, say. Sorry, Andrew, I'm with Roger on this one after all. (Any chance of your simply moving your headers to follow your messages?) Candice Let's not take the poison Lunch is enough ... (Jill Jones) --- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think a .signature is something that is exactly > that. I use it to > identify me - sometimes in the past I've used it to > promote political > causes that I'm interested in, sometimes to promote > my website either > to other people or via google. Google indexes all > this emails in the > archive. It's a poor attempt I know. My current .sig > signifies my > dissatifaction with the prevailing climate of > "patriotism" trying to > stop criticism of unwise and unjust policies. > > I have adopted other signatures on other forums > which bolster some > other facet of myself. > > Roger > > On 2/15/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Well, I'm hardly an expert on sigs, but I don't > see it > > as mattering if you place yours ahead of the poem. > So, > > yes, as far as I'm concerned, your sigs "count." > > Others may feel differently. I like my sigs to > follow > > the message because they contextualize one another > > more or less, even if they're unrelated, which, > > according to Doug, is nonetheless legitimate. (I > > consider Doug the Master of Sigs and have already > > learned from him.) > > > > Candice > > > > My soul's just a silhouette > > In the ashes of a cigarette > > (Beck) > > > > > > > > --- andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Dear Candice - I have quotes at the top of each > > > month of my running China > > > Dairy: do they count? I'll drop 'em in here: > > > > > > > > > *Who can control stories, the stories after > one's > > > life?* > > > > > > * > > > > > > *Lu You > > > *History is all in how it is writ.* (me) > > > > > > > > > *'meanings are nothing but a flow of contexts'* > > > > > > Lyn Hejinian > > > > > > *'Life, with a Chinese accent'* Bai Bin (aka AB) > > > > > > > > > > > > *'The word in language is half someone else's.'* > > > Mikhail Bakhtin > > > > > > * * > > > > > > *'Carnival is the people's second life, > organised on > > > the basis of laughter.' > > > * Mikhail Bakhtin > > > > > > ... and I will next use Julia Kristeva's - > > > ** > > > *Magic, shamanism, esoterism, the carnival, and > > > 'incomprehensible' poetry > > > all underscore the limits of socially useful > > > discourse and attest to what it > > > represses ...* > > > ** > > > ** > > > *Later (Oscar Brown Jnr)* > > > ** > > > *Andrew* > > > ** > > > ** > > > On 15/02/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > Lately (actually over the past year), I've > been > > > > filling a notebook with potential sigs and > have > > > much > > > > enjoyed the hunting of the snark/sig. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Finding fabulous fares is fun. > > Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel > sites to find flight and hotel bargains. > > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > > > > -- > http://www.badstep.net/ > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now.