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- From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
- Subject: Re: Meet Mary Ann Ybarra !
- Message-ID: <chil.727701256@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <93019.133823U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> <1993Jan19.144736.1558@walter.cray.com> <1993Jan20.101131.22189@hsr.no> <chil.727613942@sfu.ca> <CANNAM.93Jan21133526@borodin.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:14:16 GMT
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- Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:
- >In article <chil.727613942@sfu.ca> chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:
-
- >| [...] especially when you look at some of the other
- >| everything-but-the-kitchen-sink borders that have been warlorded here.
-
- > ################################################################
- > | #
- > | You have the right to free speech, / || /||||| || #
- > | Unless you are stupid enough to / || || /| |\ #
- > | actually try it. / || ||||| || || #
- > | / || || \| |/ #
- > | / \||||| \||||| || #
- > | #
- > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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-
- >Can I cite this one, from alt.music.alternative? Any chance of a full
- >professional review?
-
- Weeeeeeell...I don't know what to say about this, apart from stating the
- obvious, which is just to mechanically list out which character is used
- to make which part of the border. ("This border uses slashes as a slanting
- internal separator, hashes for the top and right edge, at-signs for..."
- You get the idea.)
-
- It is a fine example of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink school of .sig
- borders (hereafter abbreviated as EBTKSSOSB), though.
-
- What I'd really like to do is to write a full review of .sig borders in
- general, but...no. There's no way to ever have a full review of bad .sigs.
- There clueless among us will never cease to invent new types, and reach new
- heights, of badness. Any review will at best be a sampling, nothing more,
- and for any one example used in the review, a hundred or more will, sadly,
- have to be left on the cutting room floor (so to speak), for lack of space
- to include them, and lack of time on the part of the reviewer.
-
- My "research" (if you want to call it that) on .sig borders is getting out
- of hand. I'm accumulating raw data faster that I can put it in some sort
- of order and add commentary to it. (The accumulating of data--research--
- consists of reading a.f.w. and saving every fifth post or so. At least I
- don't have to go searching through lots of newsgroups myself; the warlorders
- bring the .sigs to me. Thanks, everyone. You'll get credit where it is due.)
-
- Maybe a short one sometime this weekend.
-
- But a PROFESSIONAL review, now...hmmm. Well, I've just started on this,
- and I don't actually do .sig border reviews for a living, but...
-
- It's up to a.f.w. to decide if I'm a "professional". I myself don't think so,
- not at the moment anyway, especially since my published works on the subject
- consist of nothing more than one brief review, plus the occasional comment
- as a follow-up.
-
-
- >I'd be particularly interested to see if there's
- >any official Policy on the above choice of left and lower borders
- >(aside from general aesthetic vomitworthiness, of course).
-
- Not that I know of. I happen to not be interested in making policy decisions
- anyway (someone else can do it if they are so inclined.)
-
-
- ObWarlord:
-
- [Original Subject: RE: M. Python's Inauguration]
- In alt.politics.clinton, kebarnes@memstvx1.memst.edu signs:
-
- >--
- >*.x,*dna**************************************************************
- >*(==) Ken Barnes, LifeSci Bldg. * Conservative libertarians *
- >* \' KEBARNES@memstvx1.memst.edu * for Pro-Balance! *
- >*(-)**Memphis,TN********75320,711@compuserve.com**********************
- >"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
- >I'm beginning to believe it."--Clarence Darrow
-
-
- Asterisk abuse? We got asterisk abuse!
- Email address in .sig? We got it right thar!
- Border abuse? BORDER ABUSE!? See for yourself; just take a good close look!
-
- I admit, I'm a purist. If you're going to have borders at all (and I'm
- not necessarily recommending nor approving their use), keep them pure.
- Mixing of text, barphics, or whatever with borders is a no-no in my book.
- (You are, of course, free to disagree.)
-
- More on .sig borders to come later, but right now, I've tired myself out
- from all that typing.
-
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