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Old July 24th 03, 12:35 AM
Paul Tomblin
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In a previous article, Doug Carter said:
Paul Tomblin wrote:
No. Newsgroups are about information, not about fancy formatting.


Information like the picture "drawn" in plain text characters in your
signature? grin


That was on purpose. Besides, it doesn't use up any more bandwidth than
any other 4 line text signature. Compare that to the embedded graphic
signature elements that so many WebTV lusers were using when WebTV first
infested Usenet.


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