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On HN you don't need to leave your signature, we can tell who wrote the post.

I think that works the same for email, we can tell who sent it by address and name, but people still sign it, most of the time with name only. I do.

Weirder here, and I really hope he doesn't have/do that on a twitter account though...

Signatures in email have merit, especially when correspondents use a client that strips the email addresses from quoted text in replies. The email address will sometimes be replaced with simply the contact name. While referencing such an email, the only way I can decipher which "Mark" or "Joe" sent reply in a thread is by his signature.

Outlook is, at times, guilty of this.

thanks. but i have a 18-year history of signing every post i make on the internet -- owning up to the words that i write -- and i don't wanna break my perfect record. :+)

-bowerbird

That just fills up space with no useful content. Imagine if everybody on HN did this.

imagine if everyone here owned up to their words? well, um, yes, i think that would be a good thing.

on the other hand, your "asdfologist" handle rocks. :+)

-bowerbird

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