"Peter R." wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Didn't you say that the extra lines are added by your newsfeed provider?

If that is the case, not only was it trivial, but the response was
asinine.

Well, to be fair to Matt W, only the last three lines at the bottom of my
sig are added automatically by Newsfeeds and I cannot do anything about
that. I added a few carriage returns (which adds a few blank lines) below
my sig to push that spam way below most PC-based news readers and I think
that is what irks him.

All he had to do was ask nicely and I would have considered the effects on
a newsreader of which I am unfamiliar. Instead, he resorted to immediate
hostility.

MR. Whiting has (IME) a knack for sticking his foot in his mouth, then
expending copious time and effort in trying to spin lame excuses, instead of
having the guts to retract his remarks.