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- From: Sherilyn <Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: demon.local,news.answers
- Subject: [demon.local] Sigflame FAQ
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- Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 03:14:36 +0000
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- Summary: This posting answers some questions about sig
- flames that may occur to new subscribers to
- demon.local
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- Archive-name: usenet/satire/sigflame
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- Last-modified: 1998/11/23
- Version: 1.1
- URL: http://www.sidaway.demon.co.uk/usenet/satire/sigflame.txt
- Copyright: (c) 1998 Sherilyn <sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk>
- Maintainer: Sherilyn <sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk>
-
- 0. Introduction: Why a Sigflame FAQ?
-
- Sigflaming has become an institution on demon.local, and so it's
- time we had a nice FAQ to explain sigflaming to newbies and
- start them off on the right foot.
-
- 1. What is a big sig?
-
- Anything longer than the recommended USENET maximum of four
- lines. The sig starts after the delimiter ("-- " on a line
- by itself).
-
- 2. What is a sigflame?
-
- It's a USENET posting that follows up to another to complain
- that the first posting had a big sig.
-
- 3. Why complain about big sigs?
-
- It's the best way to get more posts with big sigs, and to
- promote the ongoing discussion of sigfile size.
-
- 4. Why complain about big sigs in demon.local?
-
- It's the best way to get lots of lovely posts with big sigs,
- and discussions of sigfile size, in demon.local. Only
- trolls and troublemakers could find fault with this.
-
- 5. Why not complain about big sigs outside demon.local?
-
- This has been tried, but with limited success (see 9).
- Besides, the net effect might be to encourage people with
- big sigs, which are a limited resource, to post _outside_
- demon.local, and that would dilute the target material.
- So if you _must_ make a sigflame outside demon.local, at
- least mention that you post in demon.local, and explain
- that we always flame big sigs in demon.local.
-
- 6. Why not just ignore people with big sigs?
-
- They might go away.
-
- 7. Okay, so why not ask people to post with big sigs?
-
- They might post with small sigs just to be perverse.
-
- 8. Will Demon Internet do anything about this?
-
- They'll bill us at a flat rate for this big sigs service.
- But they seldom contribute big sigs. To make this work.
- you have to contribute your own sigflames.
-
- 9. Will nanau do anything about this?
-
- NANAU subscribers have been known to have a quiet
- chuckle, but they seldom contribute a big juicy sig.
-
- 10. Will spam cancelers do anything about this?
-
- See 9. One spam canceller is thought to have spam
- cancelled one especially enthusiastic sig flamer.
- Talk about warped priorities!
-
- 11. What about bandwidth?
-
- In article <nrTo+EAPTea2Ew2B@microser.demon.co.uk>, B.E.Newsam
- <ben@microser.demon.co.uk> writes
- ...
- >As I'm sure Piers will tell you soon, "bandwidth is not the issue". It's
- >the law, and that's that.
-
- Bandwidth is not the issue. The issue is
-
-
- B I G S I G S
-
- END
- --
- Sherilyn
-