From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Meet Mary Ann Ybarra !
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:14:16 GMT

Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:
>In article <chil.727613942@sfu.ca> chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:

>| [...] especially when you look at some of the other
>| everything-but-the-kitchen-sink borders that have been warlorded here.

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>     |  Unless you are stupid enough to   /   ||     ||      /|  |\   #
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>Can I cite this one, from alt.music.alternative?  Any chance of a full
>professional review?  

Weeeeeeell...I don't know what to say about this, apart from stating the
obvious, which is just to mechanically list out which character is used
to make which part of the border. ("This border uses slashes as a slanting
internal separator, hashes for the top and right edge, at-signs for..."
You get the idea.)

It is a fine example of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink school of .sig
borders (hereafter abbreviated as EBTKSSOSB), though.

What I'd really like to do is to write a full review of .sig borders in
general, but...no. There's no way to ever have a full review of bad .sigs.
There clueless among us will never cease to invent new types, and reach new
heights, of badness. Any review will at best be a sampling, nothing more,
and for any one example used in the review, a hundred or more will, sadly,
have to be left on the cutting room floor (so to speak), for lack of space
to include them, and lack of time on the part of the reviewer.

My "research" (if you want to call it that) on .sig borders is getting out
of hand. I'm accumulating raw data faster that I can put it in some sort
of order and add commentary to it. (The accumulating of data--research--
consists of reading a.f.w. and saving every fifth post or so. At least I
don't have to go searching through lots of newsgroups myself; the warlorders
bring the .sigs to me. Thanks, everyone. You'll get credit where it is due.)

Maybe a short one sometime this weekend.

But a PROFESSIONAL review, now...hmmm. Well, I've just started on this,
and I don't actually do .sig border reviews for a living, but...

It's up to a.f.w. to decide if I'm a "professional". I myself don't think so,
not at the moment anyway, especially since my published works on the subject
consist of nothing more than one brief review, plus the occasional comment
as a follow-up.


>I'd be particularly interested to see if there's
>any official Policy on the above choice of left and lower borders
>(aside from general aesthetic vomitworthiness, of course).

Not that I know of. I happen to not be interested in making policy decisions
anyway (someone else can do it if they are so inclined.)


ObWarlord:

[Original Subject: RE: M. Python's Inauguration]
In alt.politics.clinton, kebarnes@memstvx1.memst.edu signs:

>-- 
>*.x,*dna**************************************************************
>*(==) Ken Barnes, LifeSci Bldg.      * Conservative libertarians     *
>* \'  KEBARNES@memstvx1.memst.edu    *      for Pro-Balance!         *
>*(-)**Memphis,TN********75320,711@compuserve.com**********************
>"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
>I'm beginning to believe it."--Clarence Darrow


Asterisk abuse? We got asterisk abuse!
Email address in .sig? We got it right thar!
Border abuse? BORDER ABUSE!? See for yourself; just take a good close look!

I admit, I'm a purist. If you're going to have borders at all (and I'm
not necessarily recommending nor approving their use), keep them pure.
Mixing of text, barphics, or whatever with borders is a no-no in my book.
(You are, of course, free to disagree.)

More on .sig borders to come later, but right now, I've tired myself out
from all that typing.

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