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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: A great way of hosing the 4-line signature limit.
Message-ID: <2825@phri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 18:55:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2825
Posted: Tue Jul 28 18:55:40 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jul-87 03:43:45 EDT
References: <479@unisoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <479@unisoft.UUCP> jef@unisoft.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> I've noticed the following ordinary-looking, obnoxiously large signature
> showing up on various newsgroups lately: [...] But what I didn't realize
> at first is that it's only three lines long!  Of course, the first "line"
> has 311 characters in it...

	I love it! :-) First "inews fodder" to get (the wrong way) around
the 50% rule, then 311 character lines to get around the 4 line signature
rule.  What will people think of next?  I once had a roommate who used to
say "you can't make things fool-proof, only fool-resistant".  Seems apropos
here.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016