Jay <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just for this list. Let's face it, this isn't about spam: this is > about violating some people's sesibility regarding a completely > arbitrary customary 4-line sig limit developed in a completely > different forum (usenet) 20 years ago when (80 x 4 = 320) bytes was a > lot of disk space and bandwidth to waste on frivolity.
While you're correct and a lot of the animosity is rooted in that old usenet standard (alt.fan.warlord, anyone?) a lot of it now is about readibility. While it's not the posters fault, a lot of people don't bother to edit their posts when replying and those mile-long disclaimers -- that are usually left in multiple times -- make reading the message a pain. > days," but the internet we work on now is dominated by coporate legal > and marketing departments, not by kibo, and we can't spend too much of I voted Kibo president in '92. I still have the campaign posters in .ps somewhere. Things sure would have been different if he had won. We'd be opressed, sure, but all fonts would kern correctly (or else), and that would have more than made up for the mandatory "orange cone day". --J(K) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
