"J.B. Moreno" wrote:
>
> 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
He refered to:
<http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa.txt> (version 1.2)
I refered to:
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/index.html> 2.0.
Scroll down to near the bottom of the page. It specfies line length and
number of lines for signatures.
and I quote directly from GNKSA2 document:
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15) Separate signatures correctly, and don't use excessive ones
Posting software SHOULD separate any signature appended to outgoing
articles from the main text with a line containing only `-- ' ("dash
dash space"). To quote son-of-rfc1036:
<<If a poster or posting agent does append a signature to an
article, the signature SHOULD be preceded with a delimiter
line containing (only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by
one blank (ASCII 32). Posting agents SHOULD limit the
length of signatures, since verbose excess bordering on
abuse is common if no restraint is imposed; 4 lines is a
common limit.>>
Hence, posting software SHOULD prevent the user from using excessively
long signatures, or at least warn the user against it. A widely
accepted standard is the so-called McQuary limit: up to 4 lines, each up
to a maximum of 80 characters.
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