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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: A great way of hosing the 4-line signature limit.
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 15:32:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 15:32:36 1987
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Time for a little defense of Dave Fiske (who seems to have inadvertently
started this debate), from the site admin for BRSPYR1 (being me!):

In a referenced article, henry@garp.UUCP (Henry Mensch) wrote:
>The sad, pathetic truth is that if those who put significant time and
>thought into things like beating the four-line signature and fooling
>inews would put that time into the substance of their postings, the
>restrictions on included text and .signature size probably wouldn't be
>necessary.

	Dave's postings seem  to be isolated to 3 newsgroups: rec.humor,
	rec.arts.tv and talk.bizarre -- you think some extra time and
	thought is required for these postings???  For rec.arts.tv, you
	*might* have a point but for the others you have got to be
	kidding.  If you think the signature is a waste of bandwidth, then
	you haven't read the articles in these groups very much.

	As far as spending "significant time and thought" on this, I doubt
	it took him long at all (previous signatures of his have been
	long, using a backspace to back over previous characters which was
	fine unless your news-reader output backspaces as ^H).  He has
	since changed his .signature (several times, probably) to something
	a bit shorter.

	I did not, and have no intention of, "shaming" Dave for his use
	of the .signature (as one poster has suggested), or asking him
	to refrain from doing pretty much what he likes with it (within
	the confines of good taste, of course).  If he starts posting to
	any of the news or comp newsgroups however, I will think about
	it, but postings in rec.* and talk.* are fair game, as far as
	I am concerned.
-- 
Tim "The Enchanter" Northrup / tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com

		"How do you know so much about swallows?"