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Subject:OFF TOPIC: .sig(nature) length and HTML/RTF cruft
From:Ari Ollikainen
Date:Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:23:34 -0800

At 10:00 AM 1/13/99, Ron Lussier wrote:
>
>I'm not sure how David Marshall will handle this, but my policy was that you
>could have anything you wanted in your .signature, up to 4 lines, except
>speech inciting hate or violence.
>

        What does (did) the .sig length matter when some messages include
        HTML duplicates, such as:

        <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
        <HTML>
        <HEAD>

        <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type>
        <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR>

        etc...

        and periodically, there are the bursts of WINMAIL.DAT attachments...
        all of which consume archive space, unnecessarily.

        I'm curious, too, about how David Marshall will handle these and
        other less content oriented and more list/archive management type
        issues.

      OLTECO                    Ari Ollikainen
      P.O. BOX 3688             Networking Technology and Architecture
      Stanford, CA              Ari@OLTECO.com
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