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[Phil Payne]

> So far everyone agrees with Mike with the refinement proposed by Alan.
> Can we vote now.

The old traditional Usenet rule is a maximum of four lines in a .SIG - which I stick to.  The
.SIG delimiter should be "-- " - note the space after the "--", which is hard to do with some
editors.

The things that annoy me MUCH more than ads are twenty-line disclaimers - next to reposting a
digest to say: "Me too", that is ...

And when such disclaimers only have a "--" delimiter - or none at all - I can on occasions go
ballistic.

What I _would_ ask for - and IMO it's a much bigger issue than ads - is careful trimming of
preceding posts.  I had 147,000 lines once, reposted so the guy could say: "Me too!"

It's not just the bandwidth - it's the false hits and wasted space in the archives.  In the
day to day sense, list traffic is ephemeral - but no tinthe archives.

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