Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Cool .sigs  was RE: How long has it been?
From: jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner)
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:32:04 EST
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01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp (Rebel without a clue.) writes:
> brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?) writes:
> > t8914179@phillip.edu.au (John Whale) writes:
> >> -- 
> >> John Whale.
> >>
> >> [ MONSTROUS, BANDWIDTH WASTING SIG DELETED ]
> > 
> > WOW! This definitly has my vote for .sig of the month
> > It may not be original, but it gets A+++ for style!
> > 					-Brontosaur wishes he could do that!
> -- 
> 	You know, I have been developing a .sig collection of some really cool
> sigs.  I have a scanned Amiga logo converted to ASCII (somebody else did all
> of the work) I have the bottom border of the American TV show Mystery Science
> Theater 3000, and others.
> 
> 	maybe we can get a new newsgroup alt.sigs?  Opinions?

$ set flame

there is already a group dedicated to this kind of stupidity. it's
called alt.fan.warlord. all the biggest, ugliest, most useless and
wasteful .sig files end up there. why? so they can be rightfully
derided as the monstrosities they are.

believe it or not, you, Kyle S. Davis have had your .sig warlorded
a -number- of times. the bat one is even less original and
wasteful and has been there even more often.

if you want ASCII art, fine. start a mailing list. better yet,
just buy a CD-ROM with an archive of alt.fan.warlord. but -don't-
append 20 line .sig files to 4 line messages. it's stupid. it
wastes space and time on computers and messages around the world.
AND IT SHOWS WHAT A CLUELESS NEWBIE YOU ARE!

we are not impressed. anyone who's been on the net more than a month
has already seen enough vampire bats and Amiga checks to last a
lifetime.

>  ______________________________________________________________________________
> |Kyle S. Davis				                                       |
> |2000HD	1MbRAM//                                Hot VWs               1973     |
> |1084s       //  Only Amiga makes it possible,    \/   Take 2 home-   311      |
> |Oki 20   \\//   All others make it plausible.   \/\/  They're small.          |
> |
> |______________________________________________________________________________|

for your edification, i'll do an alt.fan.warlord style rating on your
sig:

5  points: the 80 column club. (see what happens when it gets quoted?)
5  points: a poorly drawn Amiga check
10 points: stats on a computer that sucks. (i can say that, i own an Amy)
3  points: car stats (not as common as computer stats, so not worth as much)
2  points: a VW symbol. (it's not as common as an Amiga check)
2  points: dumb "kewl saying".
1  point : lots of whitespace.
2  points: a boring border.
---
30 points, for a true monstrosity of a .sig file.

see what i mean?

so why did i post this big long article, wasting as much bandwidth
as you are? SO YOU WON'T FUCKING DO IT AGAIN! get the point? good.

$ unset flame

disclaimer: i don't warlord stuff, and i don't really much care
about what someone's .sig file looks like. but multiple crossposted
replies quoting the WHOLE DAMN THING and asking for more are
just TOO FUCKING MUCH.

jason "golly, did i say that?!?!" steiner

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