another nice one
John W. DeBoskey
jwd at sas.UUCP
Wed Nov 22 08:01:08 AEST 1989
In article <1894 at psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf at psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <20540 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore)
>writes: |In article <11576 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>|>In article <20519 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L
>Moore) writes:
I sometimes am forced to wonder.
Yes: His .sig definately let's someone know who sent the mail. You
don't even have to read the name..
No: It's not like everyone else's.
However: The last 10 articles I've perused had .sigs varing
from 4 to 11 lines. His is the smallest so far.
Now think: News is compressed. How much bandwith is required to send
a continuous stream of '@' chars, a few bytes of text,
and then more '@' chars. Please include the 3 cr's
also. I leave this as a problem to the reader. It costs
less then sending the average 5 line sig with no repeating
characters.
Personally I think the guy has a bad attitude for MAYBE 1 of the
postings he has made. So what is my opinion. But flaming him
for a .sig is just plain silly in my viewpoint. It shows some
people aren't thinking when they let their fingers do the
typing(aka: disconnect brain, start typing).
John W. De Boskey
jwd%sas at rti.rti.org (w)
jwd%baggins at mcnc.mcnc.org (h)
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