Re: ASCII art in signatures
From Doug Landauer <lan...@scruznet.com>
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· 10 Aug 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <slr...@gopher.math.fu-berlin.de>, guc...@math.fu-berlin.de wrote: > roo...@chipping.demon.co.uk (Dead Letter Box): > > >> >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 The 4 line sig limit is advisory, and largely outdated.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It is not outdated as an advisory.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! > > Where is it defined? > inews source - for quite some years. :-) And some newsreaders/senders, such as PINE, can be configured by sysops such that .sigs *must* be four lines or less. -Nik Landauer(posting from father's account)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8808011138ca9fd0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: lan...@scruznet.com (Doug Landauer) Subject: Re: ASCII art in signatures Date: 1996/08/10 Message-ID: <lan...@landauer.sc.scruznet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173317439 references: <4t8ecj$g5...@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <4tbcgb$e1...@mill.gdls.com> <hwH...@chipping.demon.co.uk> <slr...@gopher.math.fu-berlin.de> organization: SLV Warp9 MTB Folk newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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