ASCII art in signatures

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kic...@vcn.bc.ca (Greg Webster):
> : And your sig is way to fucking big!
> : You can have all this in proper four lines, too:
> And why would we want to? This is a ascii art newsgroup, if you don't 
> want to see large beautiful pieces or ascii art, go somewhere else.

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?

> This from someone who complains about the lack of sig-dashes in a post.
> Sheesh.
> Greg,
> Master of a beautifully large sig.
> (Now show me how you could do better in 4 lines)
> 
> --
>                 .-~~~~~~~~~-._       _.-~~~~~~~~~-.
>             __.'  "Wanderer"  ~.   .~ wandered: on `.__
>           .'//   names me the   \./ the Earth's back \\`.
>         .'//  World; widely have |  I have travelled   \\`.
>       .'// .-~"""""""~~~~-._   I | far._,-~~~~"""""""~-. \\`.
>     .'//.-"  Greg Webster   `-.  |  .-'  Kic...@vcn.bc.ca "-.\\`.
>   .'//______.============-..   \ | /   ..-============.______\\`.
> .'______________________________\|/______________________________`.

Yes, sigdashes are required before a signature.  Btw, you don't have any.

Now, on the subject of 'doing better" - how do you define this?
If you want the above book in a proper signature (four lines, remember?)
then the information of your name, address, and quote needs to be in it.
And possibly an ascii representation of a book that fits within four lines:

> -- 
> |����||  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> 

There - it has everything and a Greg quote on top of it!  How's that?

Now, if there wasn't a restriction on the length of a signature
then any text can be made a signature by prepending the sigdashes.
If you accept this then you probably won't mind what I say because
it now is in my signature - note the sigdashes at the beginning!  :-)

Sven