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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: another nice one
Message-ID: <11576@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Nov 89 06:46:02 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <20519@unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
>    I forgot to ask. What do you mean by bandwidth and how does that
>relate to my signature?

He means that the 240 or so characters in your "signature" (the one with all
the @ characters) serve no useful function and use up network communication
capacity that could be better used for transmitting potentially useful
information.  Also, many sites have to PAY to receive or transmit that
useless garbage.  Please show consideration and omit such decorations.