"Netiquette"

[Ronald E. Thomas]

Hello,

Thought you might be interested in a few quotes from "Zen and the Art of 
the Internet" by Brendan P. Kehoe.


"At the end of most articles is a small blurb called a person's signature.
....It exists to provide information about how to get in touch with the
person posting the article, including their email address, phone number,
address, or where they're located.  Even so, signatures have become the
graffiti of computers .  People put song lyrics, pictures, philosophical
quotes, even advertisements in their "sigs"........Four lines will
suffice--more is just garbage for Usenet (or grass-list) sites to carry
along with your article.....Netiquette dictates limiting oneself to this
"quota" of four-- some people make signatures that are ten lines or even
more, including elaborate ASCII drawings of their hand-written signature or
faces or even the space shuttle.  This is not cute, and will bother people
to no end."

Please, no flames to me, I'm just quoting a well written book.

I apologize for the extra 3 lines.

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