On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 11:33:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting our friend --> Lars Hecking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > There is some sort of convention that .sigs are separated from the body
> > by "-- " (dash dash space), and that .sigs should not be longer than
> > 4 lines.
>
> With all respect Lars...Am I doing something wrong? Frankly my rationaile
> is that quite often, inexperienced users will quote the entire message and
+often much unrelated (to the point at hand) text from previous messages. So...
...so, by your logic, just because there are greater atrocities being commited
by, as you say it, <inexperienced> people, the absolves you of responsibility
and of setting a better example?
> Also in todays age of superfast connections that my preference for an
> entertaining quote from fortune isnt too much to ask. Is it?
Ummm... don't know about you, but I have a fast connection at work and a fast
connection at home, but when I'm on the road I'm still relegated to 56k or
less over a modem (and I quite often PAY for that time spent dialed-in). All
of that considered, I think I'm lucky... some people still pay PER CHARACTER
for storage and/or transmission (eg. shell accounts).
In short, you really <should> try to set as good an example as you can for
others and help try to make the net a more-liveable place.... try to help
educate your fellow users, etc. I could go in to stories of "back when most
of this was done over UUCP and frame relay," but I'll agree it's probably
getting a bit old (and there's no sense living in the past).
Not to be too much of a pain, but you may want to check out RFC1855... it's
relatively well-written and explains all of this, and more (and can serve as
useful information/reference for others, in case you want to hand it out).
Here's an easy pointer: http://www.cybernothing.org/cno/docs/rfc1855.html
Respectfully,
Russell
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Russell M. Van Tassell
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"Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare."
