begin quoting Brad Beyenhof as of Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0800: > On Jan 23, 2008 1:08 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And finally, remember, try to be (mostly) McQuary-compliant. > > Stewart, > > Is that just the "four lines or less of 74 chars or less" rule of
4 lines by 80 characters is what I've always heard and gone by. The signature block is not meant to be quoted, so you don't have to take into account nesting. > thumb alluded to in your previous sig? I Googled "McQuary-compliant" > to see if I could find a definition, and many of those hits just go > back to archived KPLUG messages you've authored that reference the > term with little or no explanation... I've not authored that... a gentleman named "George McQuary" came up with it, and it seems like a good idea. If you can't fit what you need to say in 320 characters, it should probably be a subject all its own. For reference: http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/jargon/html/M/McQuary-limit.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.fan.warlord http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/mcquary%20limit > (And for me, I count my quote as one line and the attribution as > another line, so if my quote wraps I still rationalize to myself that > I'm following convention...) Everything after the line consisting of dash-dash-space and to the end of the file (additional signatures and footers added by the mailing list can't count against us, as we don't control that) count. 0 > -- 1 > Brad Beyenhof 2 > http://augmentedfourth.com 3 > The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers 4 > had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had 5 > his... photocopier... 6 > ~Humphrey Lyttleton That's six lines. It's easy enough to make it four: 0 > -- 1 > Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com 2 > The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers 3 > had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had 4 > his... photocopier... ~Humphrey Lyttleton -- The proper quote from the proper book Can make anyone look like a kook Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
