Re: ASCII art in signatures
In message <slr...@gopher.math.fu-berlin.de>, Sven Guckes (guc...@gopher.math.fu-berlin.de) spewed thusly:
;>roo...@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 The 4 line sig limit is advisory, and largely outdated.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It is not outdated as an advisory.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. :-)
;>
;>Sven
;>
Exactly, it's been in there for years. It's outdated. It had a purpose,
once, but now it's just another excuse to flame newbies. Not to mention
that your posting this anal-retentive crap to an ASCII art newsgroup. Why
don't you go organize your paper clip collection and leave us big-siggers
alone.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8808011138ca9fd0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: lem...@sim.zipnet.com (LeMnItZ) Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures Date: 1996/08/04 Message-ID: <4u39gh$n8...@ran.zipnet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172054789 references: <4t8ecj$g5...@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <4tbcgb$e1...@mill.gdls.com> <hwH...@chipping.demon.co.uk> <slr...@gopher.math.fu-berlin.de> organization: The Zip Connection newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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