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From: Bateau <ItsFAKE@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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Subject: Re: Dog ASCII Pics for Signature
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:15:44 +0800
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hola Dave Bird, soy una robusteza!
>In article<ib5mptsh3jk75kl80ire0c6s1potblj8ep@4ax.com>, Philip Newton
><pne-news-2001090@newton.digitalspace.net> writes:
>>On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 21:18:36 GMT, RedDog <ask@andget.com> wrote:
>>
>>> btw, what's a standard line length?  72 chars?
>>
>>If you're worrying about "standards" in signatures, a signature
>>shouldn't exceed 4 lines and should be preceded by a line containing
>>only dash-dash-space.
>
> These constraints have different significance:
>
> over 72 characters per line and the reader's software will
> likely insert a line break so he can't SEE the proper drawing.

It really shouldn't do that.

> Dash dash space is used with software that cuts signatures off
> quoted articles in replies; a minor inconvenience if omitted.
>
> The four line limit is arbitrary and doesn't matter at all.

Yeah. I'm amazed when people complain about bandwidth being wasted
when someone has an 8 line sig with each line being 20 characters but
they don't mind a 4 line sig with each line being 72 characters.
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