[rescue] spam

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:01:07PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:33:07PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:23:48PM -0400, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> > > rescue at
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> > > t       a
> > > e       w
> > > n       k
> > > .niatnuom
> > Ooh, I like it.  :)
> 
> And it breaks the 4-line .sig rule.

There is that problem.  Which is why I did mine only as a one-off proof
of concept.

That said, I've always thought that having "the rule" be a count of
lines rather than characters is pretty damn silly.  I mean, I could have
a ten-line .sig consisting of twenty characters including newlines, or I
could have a four-line .sig containing over 300 characters.

(Not that the four-line rule-of-thumb is much needed nowadays anyway. 
It arguably made sense in the age of 2400-baud modems.  It really
doesn't in the age of DSL and cable modems.)


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