Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | [Moving rapidly offtopic] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:09:36 +0000 (UTC) |
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"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
>@hd{McQuary limit} @p{} 4 lines of at most 80 characters each, > sometimes still cited on Usenet as the maximum acceptable size of a > @es{sig block}. Before the great bandwidth explosion of the early > 1990s, long sigs actually cost people running Usenet servers > significant amounts of money. Nowadays social pressure against > long sigs is intended to avoid waste of human attention rather > than machine bandwidth. Accordingly, the McQuary limit should > be considered a rule of thumb rather than a hard limit; it's > best to avoid sigs that are large, repetitive, and distracting. > See also @es{warlording}.
Don't tell me how to live my life Don't tell me what to do Repression is always brought about By people with politics and attitudes like you
-- Anne Clark, The power game, 1982
Regards Henning
-- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de
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