Hello A,
Monday, January 01, 2001, 8:58:23 PM, you wrote:
>I also keep the list traffic on my hard drive and shudder at the
>thought of unnecessary space wastage because everyone decides to make
>their signatures longer than their messages. I have about 30000
>TBUDL/TBBETA messages here. 30000 x 5kb is 150 MB. I'll leave the
>rest to your imagination.
I also save a number of the messages from this list and the other
lists I subscribe to, fortunately in most of them people do tend to be
careful with the amount of lines in their sig.
A> It's therefore not surprising, that this has been addressed in the
A> RFC's netiquette guidelines which state that your signature should
A> be no more than 6 lines long.
I always thought it was 4 lines. Well, that's what I've always kept
any sig of mine to, indeed I've tended to ensure it's less than that.
I honestly don't see the need for long sigs, when I see long sigs more
than a couple of times it tends to grate.
A> I am therefore requesting that for these lists, TBUDL and TBBETA, you
A> cut down the length of your signatures and please realize that there are
A> practical issues of wasted bandwidth behind such a request and that we
A> merely take pleasure out of harassing and censoring your behaviour.
I hope this happens but many of those with long sigs do tend to get
extremely offended when asked to chop their sigs to a more reasonable
length.
--
Kevin
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