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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 Aug 1996.
Re: ASCII art in signatures

Re: ASCII art in signatures

dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk (Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine):
> >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 The 4 line sig limit is advisory, and largely outdated.

It is not outdated as an advisory.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!

> Ten lines is regarded as outrageously large (a "warlord");

A "warlord" is *not* a large signature!  YHGMTPOAFW!

> large attention getting sig variants are best reserved
> for the occasional post where someone has annoyed you!
> 
>                                /;    ;\
> --Regards,                 __  \\____//       
>   XEMoo.Moo.Moo           /{_\_/  \`'\_/__    (cow  by P.Kistner
>  <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>  \___   (o\  /o  }   <upg...@sunyit.edu>) 
> ____________________________/          :--'   ____________________
> http://www.demon.net    @@@@  \_    `__\  ---[ now you've made me ]
>  /castle/x/xemu.html   @@@      \___(o'o)    [_really MAAAaadd!___]
>                                    `===='  
>       ______________________________________________________
>       "L.Ron Hubbard is the P.T.Barnum of religious leaders"
>       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Yes, large appendencies probably best to annoy people.
But they are not signatures.

Sven

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From: guc...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures
Date: 1996/08/02
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