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| | | (...) Yes, one per e-mail address. So you can have different sigs if you post from multiple addresses. --Todd (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) Good plan, works for me :-) -Tim (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Kyle Keppler
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| | | | (...) Sounds good. But make a clear limit on the number of charactars and/or lines. -- Kyle (URL) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) Also, with a signature feature implemented, people will probably be more inclined to use that than paste in each time. If it's not convenient for them to store more than x lines, they won't. So that will deter abuse as it is. -Tim (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) it will allow a different kind of abuse. If I put an image in my sig, I can track who's reading my posts - just like doubleclick.net. Not sure if people are worried about the privacy implecations. Dan (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | (...) Hmm interesting. I can't think of anything really evil to do with that info though... is it a big deal if others know if you read their LUGNET posts? -Tim (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | | (...) You can do that now by putting an image in you post --Orion (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | (...) right - that was my point. The fact that you could put it in a sig is the same thing, only easier. Just wanted to point out something to consider when allowing inline images. Dan (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse — Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Of course in practice it wouldn't be a very effective way for someone to snoop because of image caching in clients. They'd log a few hits here and there but not likely enough for any meaningful tracking. --Todd (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse — Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Suggestions on limit values? Standard sig size according to RFC 1855 (URL) 4 lines -- but that's a "rule of thumb" and not something written in stone (I think 'rn' or some other newsreader I used once upon a time enforced it, however). I'm (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Signature Image Abuse —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) It's not just a matter of lines, it's a matter of bandwidth consumed. Consider this post: (URL) current "signature" is only 2 or so lines long (depending on how you count) but has a 30K (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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