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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 13 Apr 1994.
Re: REQUEST help with .sig ?

Re: REQUEST help with .sig ?

cj...@titian.isds.duke.edu (Cheryl Gobble) writes:

>On my system when I post to news it only allows 4 lines of my
>.signature file, is this standard?

It's good netiquette to limit your .signature to four lines or
less, yes.  Some news software enforces this, like yours.

>As you will see when I post this msg. the feet will be cut off
>of my turtle which is part of my .sig file but makes the 5th
>line.  I 'stole' this picture (sorry not to credit the author)
>and can not figure a way to alter his head to make it only 4
>lines.

>   _____     ____
>  /      \  |  o |	Cheryl J. Gobble
>~|        |/ ___\|	ISDS * Box 90251 * Duke Univ. * Durham, NC 27708-0251
> |_________/		Phone: (919) 684-8029 * Fax: (919) 684-8594

Yeah, it's a cute turtle, but if you can't limit the sig to four
lines, better not to do it, IMHO.  Good luck fixing it up!

Claudia

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Subject: Re: REQUEST help with .sig ?
Message-ID: <mas...@husc7.harvard.edu>
From: mas...@husc7.harvard.edu (Claudia Mastroianni)
Date: 13 Apr 94 18:10:09 GMT
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