>On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:42:20 +0100, "Willem-Jan Markerink"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>As to my signature file, you need to refresh yourself on internet
>protocol. It has been standard since the beginning of the net for up
>to 4 line signature block to be appended to messages as desired by the
>poster. I have been doing this for 14 years now and it's always been
>that way. The content of said signature file is up to the discretion
>of the poster and quite frankly is none of your damn business. "SPAM"
>which I object to as well, is the content of the post, not the sig
>block.
I've been participating in this stuff for about the same amount of
time, working as a network engineer for much of it, and I never
encountered or heard of a hard and fast 4-line limit. The limit was
that it not be of excessive length, where the definition of
"excessive length" has engendered enormous amounts of discussion
over the decades. However, one of the rules that HAS been hard and
fast over that same period is that commercial announcements in
non-commercial forums are always inappropriate.
Keep in mind, too, that a mailing list is not a USENET news group
(though I would assume that someone who has been doing this as long
as you have would understand that). USENET is a massive anarchy where
people can and pretty much do whatever they want - resulting in a S/N
ratio that is arbitrarily small. Mailing lists are - appropriately
IMHO - benevolent dictatorships: The list administrator sets the
rules as he sees fit - and anyone who objects is always free to start
their own list.
-t
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