The Pankian Metaphor 3120
Screen real estate is not much of a concern because it's not something that has a direct cost - no-one's paying extra to scroll, and certainly not the huge amounts that multiplying bandwidth costs across all servers and all users leads to. Hard disk space and bandwidth usage aren't improved by rearranging the same information into a more "compact" format. And a sig of 10 lines averaging 20 characters each takes up no more bandwidth than four lines averaging 53 characters each.
On Sun, 7 May 2006 22:51:11 +0200, Morten Reistad I remember that Kurds were suspected, the advantage there being, I suppose, that it would take the problem away from Sweden itself. "Arrect the usual suspects...
I agree that sigs that are too large in terms of bytes are a problem, but the "4 lines by 80 characters" convention requires information to be packed tightly with no actual savings of bandwidth - in fact, it could take up slightly more bandwidth as the information is arranged to align and separate columns
Take yours:
"Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia ASCII ribbon campaign I'm a .signature virus! X against HTML mail Copy me into your ~-.signature and postings to help me spread!
232 characters of bandwidth usage.
Al Queda fully expected a reaction to the WTC attack. That is why it was carried out, to provoke the US...
Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia" X Ascii ribbon campaign against HTML mail and postings I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~-.signature to help me spread!
That's 214 characters - with what it saves you might even be able to fit in a tiny diagram showing where Perth is located.
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