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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Mar 2006.
Re: sorry am new

Re: sorry am new

Faux_Pseudo wrote:
> _.-In alt.ascii-art, Bateau wrote the following -._
>> "RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines?" There is no such thing as a "polite
>> manners RFC." It was also written EIGHT FREAKING YEARS after the real
>> usenet RFC you retconning bastard.
> 
> I will be more than happy to continue this provided you can reply in
> the same cordial method I did.  No reason for name calling.  No reason
> to yell.  Just a reasoned debate.  So would you like to rephrase the
> above and try again?
> 

Is there an RFC for that? Do RFC's expire?

The point you quoted is obviously outdated, from the RFC:

       "If you include a signature keep it short.  Rule of thumb
       is no longer than 4 lines.  Remember that many people pay for
       connectivity by the minute, and the longer your message is,
       the more they pay."

People pay by the minute? Maybe 11 years ago when this was written. Now 
days people pay by the gigabyte. Pictures as signatures are common on 
web based forums. No-one should care about usenet posts with a signature 
over 4 lines. Certainly most business emails use much longer signatures 
than that, and often the email is in HTML!

Quote RFC's all you like but remember it stands for Request For 
Comments, and the comment it seems is no-one gives a rats arse.

Following blindly without thinking is the antithesis of human progress.


Ross

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