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Subject: [Moving rapidly offtopic] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."
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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



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