From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp (Rebel without a clue.)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Cool .sigs  was RE: How long has it been?
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:46:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.013205.10489@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner) writes:
> 
> $ set flame
> 
> there is already a group dedicated to this kind of stupidity.
	One person's stupidity...
>it's
> called alt.fan.warlord.
	Thanx for the info.  Knew if I asked nice enough on one of
the nets, I would be directed by another kindly usenetter-NOT!
>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.
	It's so obvious that you don't like .sigs.  That's okay, as it is a
free country (at least I know America is, I don't know where you are coming from,
for all I could know, it could be Toledo, Spain.
> believe it or not, you, Kyle S. Davis have had your .sig warlorded
> a -number- of times.
	Really, I feel honored.  I checked, and it was only there once.
>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.
	If, obviously the reason why you don't like sigs is because you are stuck
with a modem that only runs at perhaps 2400 baud, then my odds of coming along with
a CD-ROM for my Ami are as about the same as your odds of coming along with a 19.2K
modem for you Ami.
>but -don't-
> append 20 line .sig files to 4 line messages.
Last time *I* counted, it was eight.  No more, and currently no less.
>it's stupid. it
> wastes space and time on computers and messages around the world.
	On thew contrary, I think with some studies, it can show that graphically-
orientated .sigs are better on eyes (providing a refreshing pause from text only)
than the endless monotony of text.
> AND IT SHOWS WHAT A CLUELESS NEWBIE YOU ARE!
	                       /\/\/\

	This shows that while you don't like .sigs, you *do* like personal names.
Including mine.  The thing is, the reason why I came up with this creature that 
you despise so, is to let people know where I am coming from.  

> 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.
	Obviously you don't pay ANY attention to any of the Amiga newsgroups, 
because I have been usenetting for over a year now.  I *NEVER* tire of .sigs.
The only thing that I do tire of ARE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO WANT TO PUT DOWN ANYBODY 
ELSE FOR ANY REASON AT ALL, BE IT WHAT YOU DEEM TO BE A STUPID QUESTION OR WHAT
YOU THINK THEY SHOULD DO.
> 
>>.sig deleted because posting of .sigs twice (in the same article) does waste space.
> 
	Checked out the rating myself.  Was rather proud that I was even worth
mentioning.  The only reason why the border is incomplete is because I never have the
time to fix it.
> 
> see what i mean?
	NO, all I see is THAT YOU FEEL YOURSELF SUPERIOR TO ANYBODY ELSE ON THE NET
WHO HAPPENS TO DISAGREE WITH YOU (IN SOME CASES JUST BY EXISTING) FOR SOME REASON.
> 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.
	You realize you can't stop me from doing it again, and if you feel this 
strongly about something, you could just set up a kill-file with anybody who has
ever posted a sig.  Course, this would include yourself :-)  I did this with the Marc
Barret thing on c.s.a.advocacy, and I haven't heard a thing about him since.

	Of course, I guess then you wouldn't be able to take in any useful conversation,
as you will spend all of your time editing your kill file (if indeed, you know how to do
this) and the only postings you will see will only be from those "CLUELESS NEWBIES" that
you so despise just for their inexperience.

	You also will realize that you can't stop me from FUCKING again.  Really, does
your mother know you talk like this to people you don't even know?  For shame.  I thought
us Amiga people when more mature than this.  Oh well.
> $ unset flame
> 
> disclaimer: i don't warlord stuff, and i don't really much care
> about what someone's .sig file looks like.
	Seems to me that you care about mine enough to spout off about it.  (I know you
didn't grade it, but still you felt strongly enough about it to cuss.)
>but multiple crossposted
> replies quoting the WHOLE DAMN THING and asking for more are
> just TOO FUCKING MUCH.
	"TOO FUCKING MUCH?"

	SORRY about that, didn't realize that the article was being crossposted into 
eternity.  But still, at least that way I found out about the .sig newsgroup.
> jason "golly, did i say that?!?!" steiner
	yeah, I guess you did.  You know, I have been thinking, maybe if I convert
my .sig file into binary and compress it and THEN replace my old sig with this, those
who really want to see it CAN, and those who don't want to see it can just believe that
theire receiving end isn't holding up.
> --
> `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,` jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu ,`,`,`
-- 
	See, here is your .sig.  A one-liner with an email address that *might*
if conditions are favorable and assuming that anybody would want to email you
anyway.  The eighty-column issue is sort of relevant, I guess.  You see, I have 132
columns (that's why the message might be garbled.

	Been thinking about creating a 132 column sig, it
's just that not everybody *has* 132 columns to toy around with.  Shoot, I wonder why
nobody connected on their 64 is upset over the eighty column thing, or even Vic 20s.
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|Kyle S. Davis				                                       |
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Ps	That's another reason why my .sig file is eighty columns.  it helps me
see where the end of everybody else's page is when I am initially posting or
followuing up to a short news article.

	Because of your constructive criticism, I *promise* to work on my .sig. 
I *will* still have a .sig because I believe that they are worthwhile things,
and you can't change my belief in that anymore than I can change the fact how
rude you can be to people who you've never met.

  -Kyle
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