On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:35, robin wrote:
> s wrote:
>
> > You know, it's not the ot's that bothers me, it those posts with
> > signatures over the usually acceptable 4 lines. There's a couple on
> > here with 10 - 15 lines in their sigs. Talk about inconsideration!
>
> Where does this four-line convention come from? A typical sig might
> consist of:
>
> Witty quotation
> Full name, title, honorifics etc.
> Snail mail address
> Website URL
>
> Even is you miss out the quotation (which is the only thing of interest
> in many posts), it's still hard to get the rest onto four lines.
>
> Sir Robin Longsig
If my ancient brain fires the proper neural synaptic pathways correctly
and remembers - the "four line sig" originated in newsgroups and
migrated into mailing lists quite some time ago...but that was when
anal-retentiveness actually had significant meaning other than what it
denotes now - which is merely anal-retentiveness...
BTW, I knocked down my "email sig" just to keep the ultra-conservatives
from burning a wooden cross on me lawn...
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