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In article <796511272snz@blizard.demon.co.uk>
           Chris@blizard.demon.co.uk "Chris Adams" writes:

> Ah, now let me guess, you're making some childish remark about the length of
> my .sig hmm???
> 
> Well let's see shall we, 8 lines at 41 bytes each verses yours...
> 
> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Richard Clayton, T U R N P I K E  Ltd                tel: +44 1306 747747
> >Dorking Business Park, DORKING, Surrey, UK. RH4 1YL  fax: +44 1306 747749
> >"Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind" quoted in ZAMM
> 
> 4 lines of 72 bytes each
> 
> 328 bytes vs 288 bytes, not really much difference when it comes down to it
> is there. So think a little bit next time before you flame someone...
> Why did you think my sig was only half length lines???
> 
> .---------------------------------------.
> |   _____         _____  _____  _____   |
> |  |     | ___   |_    ||     ||     |  |
> |  | |_| || .-'   /   / | .-. ||  ___|  |
> |  |_| |_||_|    |_____||_| |_||_|      |
> |            aka Chris Adams            |
> |       chris@blizard.demon.co.uk       |
> `---------------------------------------'

A sig is a bit of message we are forced to look at each time we look at 
the poster's messages, until we get so fedup that we put that poster 
into the killfile. 

Sigs tell a lot about a poster's personality; if he is a professional-sort
or one of the types who has not yet thought much about the impact he is 
making on other users.  Yours for instance reminds us of your name and 
email address, both of which are displayed at the top of my mailreader 
window.  The other part of your sig suggests to me that you are an 
inexperienced user of the net, and thus I have taken the liberty to 
email you some standard texts on how to behave without upsetting 
everyone on your first posts.

You seem to have misunderstood the suggestion of "4 lines"; the idea is 
to limit the sig to something that looks easy on the eye rather than 
limiting the number of bytes.  If you think "300 bytes" is okay, what 
would YOU think if you came across a sig that was 295 NEWLINE characters 
followed by "Teehee" ?


Regards,

Phil.
-- 
Phil Purle.