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- From: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
- Subject: Getting nagged
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.212933.1781@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary)
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- References: <1993Jan24.144318.27121@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.224025.15899@cs.nott.ac.uk> <C1GJ7y.2tp@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1993Jan27.065927.13843@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:29:33 GMT
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- In article mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >Wondering if I'll get flamed if my additions are shorter then my
- >.sig... (which is within the McQ limits, of course...)
-
- Officially and from a well steeped tradition a sig is unwarlordable if it is
- four lines or less long (ie. inews friendly) and is less than 80 columns wide.
- If it meets those criterion it really has no business showing up here and
- boring us all with its presence.
-
- My name has had the unfortunate coincidence of becoming associated with this
- standard as I am seen as one of the last of the stuffy, party-pooping Old
- Guard that still remembers this rule. I do not poach under the four line limit,
- and in the past nagged others when they did, since sending /etc/termcap was
- too succinct of a comment on their lack of grace to be understood.
-
- But as for the fresh rakes, I'm afraid they're simply without standards
- and poach freely, with the unsurprising result that their shows are
- simply not up to snuff. They seem to want to bring the most tediously dull
- sigs to everyone's attention, more for the apparently for the effect of seeing
- their own names than actually amusing their audience (Or to be t.b-ish,
- "How do we do it? VOLUME!").
-
- So no, currently your sig CAN be flamed if it's under the four line limit.
- But it will be by poseurs of no distinction, and in the most amateurish way.
- Send them mail from Dick Hertz --they can be amusing to toy with briefly.
-
-
- Obl Warlord:
-
- >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- >| Laurent FRANCOU O | Unite Mixte BULL Imag |
- >| /\_\ | ZI de Mayencin - 2,rue Vignate - |
- >| _==\= |<) | 38610 Gieres - France |
- >| / / / / / / /// /_\_/ | /\\ | |
- >| \ \ \ \ \ \ \\\ \_/`--' \_/ | tel : (33)76.63.48.47 |
- >| e-mail : francou@aaricia.imag.fr | fax : (33)76.54.76.15 |
- >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Well, FRANCOU too, buddy!
-
- It must be a Harley. You can see the pieces falling off.
- --
- George F. McQuary
- "He is mad, bad and dangerous to know." -Lady Caroline Lamb
-