Re: Dog ASCII Pics for Signature
From Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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· 11 Sep 2001 00:15 · View full thread
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hola Dave Bird, soy una robusteza! >In article<ib5...@4ax.com>, Philip Newton ><pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> writes: >>On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 21:18:36 GMT, RedDog <as...@andget.com> wrote: >> >>> btw, what's a standard line length? 72 chars? >> >>If you're worrying about "standards" in signatures, a signature >>shouldn't exceed 4 lines and should be preceded by a line containing >>only dash-dash-space. > > These constraints have different significance: > > over 72 characters per line and the reader's software will > likely insert a line break so he can't SEE the proper drawing. It really shouldn't do that. > Dash dash space is used with software that cuts signatures off > quoted articles in replies; a minor inconvenience if omitted. > > The four line limit is arbitrary and doesn't matter at all. Yeah. I'm amazed when people complain about bandwidth being wasted when someone has an 8 line sig with each line being 20 characters but they don't mind a 4 line sig with each line being 72 characters. -- | _ .\ ~~ _ ^~ | <')_,/ , ; .\ >(')__, . ` ' , ,______________._ *BANG* | (_~=/ \._`.'. .\ (_~_/ _, '------:_______ ;==( *BANG* | ='- \=~_) ; .\ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ | | `-\ \ *BANG* | -'= .\ ~^~ ~^~~^~ `~' \_; |ICQ:11367619 EMAIL:bateau:-)jupiter-io.net SITE:www.flashback-aw.net
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