On Sat, Aug 31, 2002, Amir Tal wrote about "Re: [OT] Looking for jobs":
> bottom line : its not clear, it makes us jumpy - loose it ! or else.. ;)
According to my personal archives (oops, I can be sued!) we already asked
Iftach a year ago (september 2001) to lose this signature on this mailing
list, and still he has it. So I guess it won't really help talking about
this again...
If people are really annoyed or threatened by this signature, maybe it
should be added to the mailing-list manager's "taboo" list of phrases.
Though it's a pretty stiff penalty for Iftach...
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