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Old December 5th 04, 05:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Greg Hennessy Greg Hennessy is offline
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:07:43 GMT,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:


As I pointed out, characterwise my signature is not even five complete
lines of text, and is therefore under the six-line "recommended"
limit. The URLs are on separate lines for the obvious reasons.


In direct contravention to RFC 1855

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html


- If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb
is no longer than 4 lines. Remember that many people pay for
connectivity by the minute, and the longer your message is,
the more they pay.


Attempting to excuse your lack of netiquette by claiming that its not
really 10 lines long doesn't wash I'm afraid.


Your .sig delimiter is also non compliant.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StandardSigDelimiter

Internet signatures in mail and news should begin with the character
sequence
DASH DASH SPACE EOL






greg


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