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From: awc@bu-cs.UUCP (Alex Cannon)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.bizarre
Subject: Graphic Signatures - Will We Ever Learn?
Message-ID: <728@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 21:47:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.728
Posted: Tue Oct 15 21:47:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 20:37:26 EDT
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Beef about USENET frowning on graphic signatures...
>> 
>>    |||||||
>>    [ O-O ]       Todd Jones
>>     \ ^ /        {decvax,akgua}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!todd      
>>     |___|        SCI Systems Inc. doesn't necessarily agree with Todd.
>> 
>> See, now it's only four lines. Is that any less offensive?
>
>Boy I'm with you Todd.  Signature files with graphics help me recognize
>those who posted articles.  It is alot easier to remember a picture than
>it is a name.  I like to recognize those who post articles so that I can
>get a better and more complete view of how a person feels about things.
>Signature files can also display the personality of the person submitting
>articles.  I don't understand how USENET got the idea that net news readers
>find graphics offensive.
>
>-- 
>  /\                                                    /\
> /  \/^\   /\              /\/\/\  /^\    /\          /^/\^\  /\
>Al Gates\^/  \/\          /      \/   \/\/  \/\      /    ^ \/  \^^^\
>BDM Corporation \/\ /^\  /      {seismo,rlgvax}!bdmrrr!gates \    /\ \
>7915 Jones Branch Drive\/          \            \  /          \  /  \ \
>McLean, Virginia  22102 \           \            \/            \/    \ \
>                         \                        \                     \^^\

Thanks a lot, you turkey! I got to the end of your article, and I
was assaulted by the above HUGE and precipitous GRAPHIC SIGNATURE!
I started hyperventilating, pitched off my chair, and hit my head
on the wall. Now I'm on an indefinite leave of absence from work,
with a poor prognosis for recovering the full use of my left pinky
and left-hand bottom part of my tongue.

We MUST educate the USENET community at large about the ever-growing
dangers of character graphics.

Boy, some people...

Alex Cannon
Boston University

"America First, With No Suppositories"
   -- Famous American A**hole