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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: editing .newsrc
Message-ID: <1989Aug20.025847.3430@twwells.com>
Date: 20 Aug 89 02:58:47 GMT
References: <428.24E71AB9@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG> <1348@abaa.UUCP> <30748@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <30748@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
: I count three network addresses (one would do quite nicely), two phone numbers
: (so he won't miss the flood of callers congratulating him on his beautiful
: signature), his job title (for the prospective employers out there), his
: current employer and two, count them, *two* cute little slogans. All I see
: missing are his physical characteristics and whether he's an organ donor.

Wisner?

Get off his case!

Big signatures are a minor irritation; you don't need to make a
federal case of it! Signature size is essentially a matter of
courtesy. The four line "limit" is, at best, a convention; there *are*
no conventions on content. Or rather, what convention there is seems
to be that we ignore what is in the signature, even if we don't like
it.

I found nothing particularly objectionable in the original signature
or in the new and improved one; moreover, what you have been
complaining about is very common on the net. Common opinion, the only
thing that matters a damn as far as netiquette is concerned,
disagrees with you: signatures that aren't egregiously long are
acceptable; commercial tag lines are normal; affiliations and titles
are common. And many people give several ways for others to reach
them, out of consideration for those who aren't so fortunate to have
access to a smart mailer.

Complaints like yours belong in E-MAIL. You know this.

Were I him, I'd double the size of my signature for a couple of
weeks, just to spite you.

(BTW: new users? Welcome to a typical flame war: much noise about
trivia.)

Note that this message has its followups directed to alt.flame.

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