From RFC 1855, Netiquette Guidelines:
In order to ensure that people know who you are, be sure to include a line or two at the end of your message with contact information. You can create this file ahead of time and add it to the end of your messages. (Some mailers do this automatically.) In Internet parlance, this is known as a ".sig" or "signature" file. Your .sig file takes the place of your business card. (And you can have more than one to apply in different circumstances.) There's nothing here about content restrictions but it does say "a line or two." I believe the original objection in this thread was to the two line E-mail with a 10 line sig file. Not exactly "conservative in what you send ..." Bu then again with the poliferation of "enhanced E-mail clients" and net citizens sending 65K three-paragraphs-of-text E-mails with 50K animated GIF sigs and 10Kbackgrounds in HTML (done Yahoo! Mail lately?), maybe this is an antiquainted concept. :( Remember only about 5% of that fiber in the ground is lit. We need to figure out a way to fill the other 45% (figuring interesting things start happening above 50% utilization). Just my 2ยข. Best regards, _________________________ Alan Rowland -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of brett watson Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 1:09 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: my sig --On Wednesday, August 07, 2002 03:48:27 PM -0400 William Warren <hescominsoon@adelphia.net> wrote:
the sig is removed....I am saddened that my sig was/is considered obnoxious and self-indulging. I appreciate the explanations.
wow, you took heat for that .sig? *that* is obnoxious and self-indulging (and yes i meant to reply to this silly list). i should go re-read the nanog charter (or the internet charter i guess) and see where it says you can't have a .sig that talks about God (or the Bible, or whatever). -b