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From: landauer@scruznet.com (Doug Landauer)
Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures
Date: 1996/08/10
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references: <4t8ecj$g5c@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <4tbcgb$e14@mill.gdls.com>
 <hwHDoDAYDkAyEwXP@chipping.demon.co.uk>
 <slrn509d77.l7t.guckes@gopher.math.fu-berlin.de>
organization: SLV Warp9 MTB Folk
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art


In article <slrn509d77.l7t.guckes@gopher.math.fu-berlin.de>,
guckes@math.fu-berlin.de wrote:
> root@chipping.demon.co.uk (Dead Letter Box):
> > >> >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 The 4 line sig limit is advisory, and largely outdated.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It is not outdated as an advisory.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.

-Nik Landauer(posting from father's account)