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From: newbery@vuwcomp.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: .signature line limit
Message-ID: <12703@vuwcomp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 16:49:48 EST
Article-I.D.: vuwcomp.12703
Posted: Mon Mar 30 16:49:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 06:05:37 EST
References: <1305@msudoc.UUCP>
Reply-To: newbery@vuwcomp.UUCP (Michael Newbery)
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <1305@msudoc.UUCP> lawitzke@msudoc.UUCP (John Lawitzke) writes:
| think a 5-line limit is far more realistic:
...
|I think this is far better than the four line limit. Perhaps a poll is
|in order ...

Why not a character limit, say 256? This is actually less than four 80
character lines but allows more flexibility in my opinion. The aim of the
.signature restriction is to save bytes is it not?

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Michael Newbery

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