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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures
Date: 1996/08/01
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In article <slrn501oag.8ue.guckes@somerville.math.fu-berlin.de>, Sven
Guckes <guckes@somerville.math.fu-berlin.de> writes
>
>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.


The 4 line sig limit is advisory, and largely outdated.

Ten lines is regarded as outrageously large (a "warlord");  large
 attention getting sig variants are best reserved for the occasional
  post where someone has annoyed you!

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