In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Garth Wallace wrote:
> >
> > "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > [...] decided if you use a signature file with more than 64
> > > caharacters in length [...]Or if its more than 5 lines long you
> > > breaking the same law.
> >
> > Where? Where does it say this?
> > Here's the guidelines: http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa.txt
> > Show me where it says that signatures are limited to 64 characters. Quote it
> > to me. Please.
>
> Garth your Right. the people posting on USENET are wrong.
>
> I did a research on GNKSA 2. I went to GINKSA 2 website.
<http://www.gnksa.org/> *is* the GNKSA 2 website.
> The limit is 80 characters and 4 Lines in Length.
No, it's not.
> The GNKSA 1.2 document you quoted doesn't determine a line length for
> Signatures.
He didn't quote the 1.2 document.
> According GNKSA 2.0 an 80 character length. (Although it doesn't
> specifiy whether it includes spaces as caharacters).
>
> If you want to examine GNKSA 2.0 go
> to<http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/index.html>
>
> Read:<http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa.txt>
Which is the same thing that he pointed you at.
I assume you are referring to this:
| A widely accepted standard is the so-called McQuary limit: up to 4
| lines, each up to a maximum of 80 characters.
It is well established that this is a base-point, that is used to
decide whether or not the developers definition of "reasonable" is
compatible with the GNKSA's, and not a limit in itself (i.e. OE's
limiting the sig to 4096 character is indeed a "limit", but it isn't
anywhere near what the GNKSA is referring to, OTOH, a program that
warns if the sig is over 300 characters or 10 lines is near compatible,
despite not meeting the McQ standard).
--
J.B. Moreno
