Re: What is the difference between a worm and a trojan ?

From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty (a.nony.mous_at_example.invalid)
Date: 06/05/04 

Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:19:58 GMT

Quoth the raven T. Sean Weintz:

> Is that facetious? If so, just what is considered (by you of course) an
> acceptable usenet signature length?

A simple google search turns up many pages, this one among them:
http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/news-use.htm#Sig
It says _four_ lines is a maximum.

> I frankly don't see what the big deal is. The whole sig is still under
> 1k, so I can't believe you see it as a bandwidth issue.

The bandwidth isn't the major issue, as I see it. It's that so many
people do not TRIM it and we all have to scroll an entire extra screen
to get to whatever they posted under it. That's annoying. 

-- 
    -bts
    -This space intentionally left with two lines.
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