X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f996b,8808011138ca9fd0
X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public
From: Sandy Morton <swm@atl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures
Date: 1996/08/01
Message-ID: <32011176.31A3@atl.hp.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 171741646
distribution: world
references: <4t8ecj$g5c@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <4tbcgb$e14@mill.gdls.com>
 <V3GUzDAjf5$xEw1y@chipping.demon.co.uk>
 <slrn4vvg0i.djl.guckes@banach.math.fu-berlin.de> <4tpns7$knr@milo.vcn.bc.ca>
 <slrn501oag.8ue.guckes@somerville.math.fu-berlin.de>
content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
organization: Hewlett-Packard
mime-version: 1.0
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.07 9000/715)


Sven Guckes wrote:
> Looks like you don't understand.
> Signatures end with the fourth line after the sigdashes.  Period.
> You can have whatever ASCII art in the post before the sigdashes -
> but if it's over four lines it cannot be part of a signature.  Geddit?

Aaahh,  but Sven, the length of an allowed signature is a function
of the news reader/system/setup/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.  Not
*everyone* is restricted to four lines.  ;^)  Observe:

--
                  _    _
                 (_`,_' )
                  )    `\
                 /    '. |
                 |       `,
                  \,_  `-/
                  ,&&&&&    ,--.
                 ,&&&&&,=-=-\__/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=.
                ,&&&\&&[              Sandy Morton ]
                `    --.           Hewlett-Packard ]
                |\      )       WS-COE Development ]
                | `----'  Atlanta, Georgia   30319 ]
                `     `.,--.                       ]
                 `._    |  |        swm@atl.hp.com ]
                    `-..\__/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-='