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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: another nice one
Message-ID: <1894@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 17:37:25 GMT
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Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <20540@unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore)
writes:  |In article <11576@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|>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.  
| 
|I can't believe that four lines causes any significant problems.  Does 
|anyone know how much is paid to recieve my .sig? .000000001 cents?

  Noone meant your .sig in itself.  A .sig is useful.  However, using 3 lines
of said .sig to say that your name is Ken is slightly wasteful.  Try piping
your .sig through tr -d '@', or sed -e '2,4d'; it'll be much more acceptable.
Also, you'd be surprised how much 240 bytes cost, passing through thousands of
systems...

(ack. never do fill-paragraph in jove when you forgot to seperate your text
from the included text.)

|Also, I don't consider it useless garbage. It allows someone to easily
|identify me. That was its purpose and it seems to serve it pretty well.
Sure.  The first line serves that purpose.  The next 3 serve absolutely none.
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