# Spurious sig test

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spurious-sig-test/155663>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 17, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spurious-sig-test/155663 "2003-02-17T17:34:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spurious-sig-test/155663/1 "2003-02-17T17:34:34Z")

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What ever happened to sigs anyway?

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**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spurious-sig-test/155663/2 "2003-02-17T17:37:38Z")

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Probably a bandwidth saving issue, then again…

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spurious-sig-test/155663/3 "2003-02-17T17:40:50Z")

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as opposed to…?

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**Author:** ![Azure\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spurious-sig-test/155663/4 "2003-02-17T18:32:47Z")

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I’m trying out my new sig too.

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**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spurious-sig-test/155663/5 "2003-02-17T21:16:54Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Azure Eternity \*  
> \*\*I’m trying out my new sig too. \*\*

ARROWED!

Getting **Cecil Adams** to notice me was the hard part, getting StrongBad to answer my e-mails should be relatively easy.😃