Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ki4pv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: USENET frowning upon graphics in signatures Message-ID: <462@ki4pv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 23:45:28 EDT Article-I.D.: ki4pv.462 Posted: Mon Oct 14 23:45:28 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 23:38:55 EDT References: <491@scirtp.UUCP>, <790@rduxb.UUCP> Organization: CompuData South, DeLand Lines: 16 ] ref. to ms. rec'd that pictures in .signature are bad; ] complaint that "smiley face" will be outlawed next. There is a fairly simple reason that graphics (and number pyramids) are strongly discouraged: lots of sites are small companies that must pay a phone bill to receive this stuff. Bell doesn't have this problem, of course; there is method to their madness of posting "for rent" and "car for sale" notices for the world in "net.general". Some companies have to pay Bell to receive this rubbish; it hurts like taxes to have to pay for pictures, novels, and expositions of the general theory of relativity in ".signature" files. -- Tanner Andrews, KI4PV uucp: ...!decvax!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner