Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@taac.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Signature files (LONG) Message-ID:Date: 18 Aug 89 02:19:42 GMT References: <15046@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <549@buster.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 55 In-reply-to: rli@buster.UUCP's message of 16 Aug 89 07:17:55 GMT hmmm.. What a complete bunch of statistical nonsense. Why is it that each of these 1000+ sites requires a phone call? Where does the number 4200 come from? What about all these internet sites which also store the file on disk? Don't we count? Ten dollars per megabyte?? Outrageous. Is that per megabyte-month or megabyte-hour or what? Or are you just making this up? Thirty dollars to store a file on the entire usenet seems extremely cheap to me. If you are REALLY concerned with wasting other people's money transfering excessive things, why not restructure your signature: -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. SNAIL: Buster Irby usenet: {buster,nuchat}!rli 13019 Naples Lane Stafford, Texas 77477 first off, why the 79 hyphens? That's $3 to $6 dollars of disk space and $0.22 worth of telephone charges to tell us that your signature is starting. The two hyphens that your posting program put in say that and only cost eight cents to store and one half a cent to send. Continuing, why would we want to know your home address everytime you post something? Couldn't you just put that in if you were actually expecting mail? You see, most people would mail you and ask for your address if they wanted to send a package. But since you've mailed it, I'll add it to my rolodex. Thanks. That only cost another 86 characters (not including NL's which would be there anyway). So we give AT&T another $0.22 cents or so and eat another $3 in disk space every time you send out your address. I won't count the 22 spaces to put the mailing address over there on the right (to make the signature less than 4 lines no doubt. Humorously adding 21 additional characters!) Why not make your signature be something like this? -- Buster Irby {buster,nuchat}!rli (of course the mailer or posting program puts in the two hyphens) That's 33 chars which do the job just fine. If you are concerned with line charges and storage space, this would be a rational thing to do. Personally, I don't like long signatures simply because they are really annoying. But then, they do let you pick out the personality of the poster and that's probably a useful thing. -- Rodney