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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@online.no> writes:

> Why not just make it a possibility for the user to set a variable to
> t, nil or ask (or something), so the user can decide for himself if he
> wants the sig or not in the reply?

Because there are already too many options.  There is already a
perfectly good way to quote the signature in the rare cases you would
want that, namely manual cut and paste from the article buffer.  Why
introduce another?