Wikipedia 10K Redux by Reagle from Starling archive. Bugs abound!!!

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Signature

One or more text lines automatically attached to the end
of an [[email]] or [[newsgroup]] message by a reader program.

A signature usually includes the name, phone number,
and email address for the sender.  It also 
sometimes includes [[AsciiArt]].
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This isn't the primary sense of "signature"; remember, this isn't an encyclopedia of computer stuff.