Re: ASCII art in signatures
From Sven Guckes <guc...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de>
· alt.ascii-art
· 2 Aug 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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 The 4 line sig limit is advisory, and largely outdated. It is not outdated as an advisory.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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8808011138ca9fd0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: guc...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures Date: 1996/08/02 Message-ID: <slr...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172400467 references: <4t8ecj$g5...@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <4tbcgb$e1...@mill.gdls.com> <KWu...@xemu.demon.co.uk> organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin x-access: 16 17 19 reply-to: guc...@math.fu-berlin.de newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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