Talk: Net Cops :P

R. M. Odom:
> It has been my experience on the net that far more server space is wasted
> on eight screensfulls of flame bait, or other unnecessary content, for a 
> two line "Up yours" reply than all the five to ten line .sigs could ever 
> hog.

umm, have you actually measured this?  if not, then please excuse me
for being a little skeptical.  useless reposts are one-shot deals.
signatures are a _systematic_ use of bandwidth.  your sig is 556 chars
in a 2408 char article, about 25% of your article.

last time I tried measuring this stuff, sometime in 1990, signatures
totalled only 4% of the disk space.

sigh.  I remember the good old days when I tried to convince people
that the Organization header was a waste of bandwidth because it's
often a) wrong; b) obvious from the return address; c) duplicated in
the signature.

oh well.  it's almost time to move the local news server to a machine
with more disk space anyway..
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