\_ SMTP quoth Ed Skinner on 8/18/2003 11:12 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ (Someone suggested writing "ASK FOR ID" in the signature area of the card 
\_ instead of my signature -- would that help?) 

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/index.html

The short version (to avoid annoying ad banners and the like) is:
signatures don't do jack to improve retail/service security.  Maybe
less than jack.

It's sort of amusing the things he did, but the *all* worked,
including "X -----".

Maybe he was just lucky.  Maybe clerks are lazy.  Which is more
likely?

Yah.

David