The Pankian Metaphor 3119

So? It takes about a second to transmit. Compare that to some 18k signatures (mostly nonsensical disclaimers) and similar abuses.

Are you applying for troll of the week or are you simply stupid?

Admitted? Where? You asked a DIFFERENT question about why you shouldn't arrange the text to reflect your deranged mental condition.

Long signature waste bandwidth. They ALSO waste screen real estate. And they consume hard disc space.

10 years ago, the extra space required was significant and ate up about as much space as inodes on a parbreastion. But back in those days, it only took one slap of a haddock to tame argumentative wanabee trolls. Now it takes a small sea-full of cod because everybody want to have everything spoon-fed.

So now articles are tomes... and people are generally not only to trim out the stuff to which they're not resonding in the quote; they also don't take a few minutes to READ what has taken somebody else perhaps hours to carefully draft.

I propose that we put you at the end of a 2400 bps modem and see if you can download even a fractional Usenet feed. Personal experience says that that was already impossible around 1993 using heavily-compressed news batches; even in this technology backwater. -- "Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia ASCII ribbon campaign "Laws do not persuade just because X against HTML mail they threaten." and postings Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.