From: tomg@stud.cs.uit.no (Tom Grydeland)
Subject: My morning on the net
Keywords: You bet!
Followup-To: alt.astrology
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 11:34:22 GMT


Y'know, I was only going to post the usual tab-damaged, ASCII-bordered,
80-column usual boring, ugly, uninteresting .sigs with full Snail-mail,
two or more email-adresses, silly quotes etc. spread over umpteen lines,
like the one below, from kytan@mantra.fia.dmg.ml.com (Kok-Yong Tan) in
alt.supermodels...

===============================================================================
Kok-Yong Tan, 			  	| My words are my own: 
Fixed Income Analytics Group, 	  	| My bosses know naught.
Merrill Lynch,			  	| Wherever they're sown,
World Financial Center, North Tower, 	| Just I should be sought.
New York, NY 10281-1315.	  	|		- K. Y. Tan, 5 Feb 1992
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
InterNet: kytan@fia.dmg.ml.com (Merrill Lynch)
	  75046.256@compuserve.com (CompuServe)
===============================================================================
























...or this one, even uglier border, from saurav@cory.Berkeley.EDU
(Saurav Chatterjee) in alt.fan.dan-quayle...(notice copyright and *four*
(yup, you read me right, four. one-two-three-*four* email-adresses)):

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ "I'm on a five year plan - BA, MBA, BMW"              ** ** saurav@usa   @
@                                                       *  * (.ece.cmu.edu)@
@ 49'ers III-Peat! - never mind                         *  *  saurav@ocf   @
@ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ** *  saurav@cory  @
@      Copyright (c) Chatterjee Enterprises, 1992        * *  saurav@ohm   @
@             All Rights Reserved Worldwide              * *(.berkeley.edu)@
@ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ** **              @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

























Then, In comp.text.tex, fred@si.uucp (Frederic PETROT) signs in excess:

 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |                                                                           |
 |    +------------+                        +-----------------+              |
 |    |            |                    +---+ Frederic PETROT |              |
 |    |            |              +-----+---+----+    |       |              |
 |    |         +--+-----+        |     |   |    |    |       |              |
 |    |         |  |     |        |     |   |    |    |       |              |
 |    +---------+--+     |        |     |   +---------+-------+              |
 |              |        |        |     |        |                           |
 |            +---+      |        |     |        |                           |
 |      +--- / \+/ \ ----+------- | ----+---------------------+              |
 |      |   /   /   \             |     |     Equipe CAO&VLSI |              |
 |      |  +---+ \   \            |     |    Laboratoire MASI |              |
 |      |   \   \ +---+           |     |        |            |              |
 |      |    \   /   /            +--------------+            |              |
 |      |     \ / \ /   Couloir 55-65, 2eme etage, Bureau 201 |              |
 |      |      +---+    Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (P6) |              |
 |      +-------------- 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05 +              |
 |                                      |                                    |
 |          Tel:      44.27.54.15  Fax: |         44.27.62.86                |
 |          Telex: UPMCSIX200145F  e-mail: petrot@masi.ibp.fr                |
 |                                      |                                    |
 +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+

AAAAAAARRRGHHHH! Is that a flowchart, self-portrait or what?

What the *FUCK* is the matter France anyway?

Y'know, I was really ready to give up all hope for reasonable co-existence
(This might also have something to do with reading `The history of
 bestiality' and listening to Clint Ruin at the same time all of last
 night), I mean, how CAN people be so inconsiderate? Letting people use
*23* lines of spoiled whitespace for a .sig, while at the same time forcing
them to use _Telex_ (*shudder*)

Meach! Time to bring out your .sigcompactor[TM] again.

































But then, in alt.hackers, spiff@nowhere restores my faith in humanity...

I hate my damn .sig 
It's just like my wig
I'd like to stop using it...
but my ego's too big. 


















Ahh, perhaps this day was worth waking up to anyway....


-- 
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