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From: as38@hamlet.umd.edu (Patrick Amato)
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Subject: Re: Question. Size of sig?
Date: 14 Dec 1994 12:12:05 -0500
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In article <D0pJCH.448@cs.dal.ca>, Bill Phu <phu@ug.cs.dal.ca> wrote:
>Anders Ryden (b93ary@albireo.tdb.uu.se) wrote:
>: I was pondering upon my signatures ( I tend to change them ever so often)
>: and I was wondering, How large can a sig be to be considered "polite"?
	[stuff deleted]
>than the message that it came with!  I keep mine to 5 lines :)  (some nice
>ones are longer..-shrug-..).
>: Is there a recommended size?
>: What do you all think?
>
	Sigs of 5 or even 10 lines are great the first or even second
	or third time. After a while it gets annoying to constanly
	look at/erase the same sig. This applies to E-mail.
	One colleague of mine sends me an average of 8 E-mails
	a day, each with the same damm 5 line sig, EVERY time.

	First, or second time mailing,s its always great
	to include a silly sig...after that it gets quite annoying.
	I ask of everyone, if you post a lot or if you are in
	corespondence w/ someone often, have the decency to 
	write a script that at least changes your .signature
	every day. Or leave it small. With all this wonderful
	asci art going around it would rather easy to to have a
	great, different, signature just about every day of the year!!
	I wrote a quick "C" program that put in a different assci image
	to the motd every day.. right now I have 50 files to choose from
	(randomly) and it keeps growing. Every enjoys the variety.
	To do the same with a .signature file
	could be done easily with a script that is executed at login.

	If you dont know how to write a script ect, post here and
	I am sure plenty of people would be willing to donate examples.

	Here is the sig I use for people I corespond with once a week..
	-Amato-
	Here is the one that I use on daily corespondence
	-p-

	I have many silly ones I sometimes toss in for variety.

	Some of the sigs I have seen so many times via E-mail they
	are pretty much burned into to my monitor, my mind and even my dreams.

	Any one else share these feelings or am I the odd man out?

	ltr 
	  -p-