Re: ASCII art in signatures

pam...@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu (Patrick C Mills):
> Sven Guckes (guc...@somerville.math.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
> : 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.  Geddit?
> 'scuse me, my sigs go up to 8 lines, and I ain't reducing them for nobody.

Yes, your appendix is eight lines and you need not cut it;
it just happens to not fit the definition of a "signature".

> If you or anyone else gripes about it, I toss my 256-line ascii into my sigs.
> Don't get many complaints about the 8-liners after that. 

Oh, a Kibo-wannabe.  Seen those before:
"If you think my sig it long then you should see it appended twice!"
"Other people have worse sigs so mine is perfect!"
I am always impressed by people who think this way.  NOT!

> This 4-line limit is nothing but a load of crap that only anal-retentive 
> idiots really care about. I rarely get any complaints about my sigs.

It's not the number of complaints that makes an appendix a signature -
but the 4x80 box.  If 320 characters aren't enough then a gazillion more
probably won't suffice, either.

> : > -- 
> : > |����||  Greg Webster Kic...@vcn.bc.ca
> : > | ...||  "Wanderer" names me the World; widely have I wandered:
> : > | .. ||  on the Earth's back I have travelled far.
> : > |____||  "Okay, I've got the banana, ..." -- <4pb7il$qf...@milo.vcn.bc.ca> 
> Yeah, but loses 99% of the artistic expression.

Yes, it does not contain the picture of the book as before.
You didn't expect to see it in four line, did you?

> One of the things the 'net is about is self-expression.
> If it takes more than 4 lines to do it, go right ahead.

Then why don't you put your "self-expression" *before* the signature?
If everything you can ever express can fit into eight lines
then why don't you put up a web site with it and quit posting?

> There's to much to me to fit in 4 lines or less.

Well, not everybody is capable of putting his name and address into four lines.
It's an art form that apparently not everyone understands.
Signatures probably aren't for everyone.

> True, none of the ascii's I use are my own,
> but they still say a little about myself...

Yeah, right!

Sven