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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:16:27 -0400 (EDT)
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To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Subject: Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."
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I think ppl are recommending you BZ2 all your sigs......
	Nick

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>:
> > >From AFW FAQ:
> > 
> > Q11. What is the McQuary limit?
> > A11. "There once was a man from Nantucket,
> >      who lost his .sig in a bucket.
> >      Five lines was too long,
> >      columns 80 just strong,
> >      so he didn't know where to tuck it."
> > A11. The limit on signature size:  "4x80".
> 
> I just added the following to the Jargon File masters:
> 
> @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}.
> -- 
> 		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
> 
> What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of
> the individual right to lawful defense."
> 	-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"
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