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Also known as: sig, signature
The block appended to the end of an article holding a name, contact details, a project URL, or a quotation. Convention separates it from the body with a line containing two hyphens and a space, which tells newsreaders to strip it automatically when quoting. Four lines is the traditional limit and longer ones draw complaints. Automated binary posting tools generally omit the block altogether.
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