X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8808011138ca9fd0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: kick@vcn.bc.ca (Greg Webster) Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures Date: 1996/08/14 Message-ID: <4urve1$2pv@milo.vcn.bc.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174174753 references: <4t8ecj$g5c@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <4tbcgb$e14@mill.gdls.com> organization: Vancouver CommunityNet newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Doug Landauer (landauer@scruznet.com) wrote: and some other people too: : > > >> >Signatures end with the fourth line after the sigdashes. Period. : > > >> The 4 line sig limit is advisory, and largely outdated. : > > >It is not outdated as an advisory. In fact, it's a definition! : > > Where is it defined? : > inews source - for quite some years. :-) : And some newsreaders/senders, such as PINE, can be configured by sysops : such that .sigs *must* be four lines or less. But...when you consider that people are spending hours (days!?) downloading pure and utter crap from the internet as a hobby, the miniscule amount of bandwidth "wasted" for an ascii art signature of more than four lines isn't really a problem. My sig is 8, and it's staying that way. It isn't offensive, it's well put together, and I think makes a nice artistic statement about who I am. Yours truly, the one and only Kickstart. -- .-~~~~~~~~~-._ _.-~~~~~~~~~-. __.' "Wanderer" ~. .~ wandered: on `.__ .'// names me the \./ the Earth's back \\`. .'// World; widely have | I have travelled \\`. .'// .-~"""""""~~~~-._ I | far._,-~~~~"""""""~-. \\`. .'//.-" Greg Webster `-. | .-' Kick@vcn.bc.ca "-.\\`. .'//______.============-.. \ | / ..-============.______\\`. .'______________________________\|/______________________________`.