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Subject: 
Re: Signature Image Abuse
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Fri, 30 May 2003 14:20:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Kyle Keppler wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Jake McKee wrote:
> > > On a somewhat unrelated note, Todd, do you have plans to be able to save
> > > sigs? That would be a [HUGE] win to me.
> > 
> > Yes, one per e-mail address.  So you can have different sigs if you post from
> > multiple addresses.
> > 
> > --Todd
> 
> Sounds good. But make a clear limit on the number of charactars and/or lines.

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



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Signature Image Abuse
 
(...) 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 (23 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Signature Image Abuse
 
(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: Signature Image Abuse
 
(...) Sounds good. But make a clear limit on the number of charactars and/or lines. -- Kyle (URL) (23 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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