At 10:30 AM 1/28/98 +0000, Pauline M. Marshall wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Philo wrote:
>
>> I think a four-line ad so someone can get email for free is great, and I've
>> seen .sigs (including my traditional one) that are longer.
>
>True, but I have the OPTION of removing my sig, and so do you.  Hotmail
>people et al don't.

Sure they do- pay for a commercial email account.

>Not only that, but the advertisement 'sig' is in
>addition to the user's signature, making it upward to an average of 8
>lines.  Most people scream when they see 8+ line sig files.

I thought about this after the fact, and you have a point- perhaps the
solution is to inform freemail users that the ads count towards their .sig,
and they'd better not have more than 1-2 line .sigs. (email address and a
homepage should always be in a .sig!) If they want quotes or ASCII art,
then they're gonna have to pony up for a pay account. That seems fair.

On the same note, I hope listowners with footers chastise their members for
not cutting quoted footers off...

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Philo


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