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mbbrutman
March 6th, 2009, 05:19 PM
Just a gentle reminder ...

It is bad netiquette to have a gigantic .sig or a .sig that is composed of multiple links. Some of the .sigs used here are getting outrageous, and it's time to tone them down - this isn't an arms race.

On Usenet many many years ago people got obnoxious with their .sigs and the term 'McQuary Limit' was coined. (See 'McQuary Limit' (http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/McQuary-limit.html) for details. AHM pointed that gem out to me.) Simply stated, a .sig should be no more than 4 lines long and each line should be 80 characters or less. The McQuary Limit shows it's age - it was invented for Usenet, long before the web, but the spirit is still reasonable.

For those of you with the larger .sigs, please make an effort to tone it down a bit. Some guidelines:


A web link or two is fine .. anything more (especially to the same related resources) is overkill.
A small picture is fine ...


If your .sig is multiple times longer than your normal posts, it's gotten out of control. Show some modesty. ;-0