From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: David Emory Watson <demoryw@pacbell.net>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
aia21@cam.ac.uk, stoffel@casc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:30:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17627.988637446@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010430025335.A5189@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010430025335.A5189@thyrsus.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104300145050.4113-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <988611138.21363.1.camel@shade>
esr@thyrsus.com said:
> I don't think I've heard anyone invoke the 4-line rule since about
> 1992, though. I didn't start generating short random quotes into my
> sig until about 1996, well after the "standard" was effectively dead.
RFC 1855 is dated October 1995.
- If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb
is no longer than 4 lines. Remember that many people pay for
connectivity by the minute, and the longer your message is,
the more they pay.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-30 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-27 23:35 CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 15:12 ` John Stoffel
2001-04-29 22:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 22:43 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 16:28 ` John Stoffel
2001-04-30 17:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 19:16 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-04-30 19:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01 9:23 ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-05-01 16:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01 21:35 ` Olivier Galibert
2001-05-01 22:26 ` Tom Rini
2001-05-02 13:32 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-05-02 17:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-02 20:12 ` John Stoffel
2001-05-03 7:04 ` Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 7:34 ` Urban Widmark
2001-05-03 7:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 14:33 ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 22:20 ` Mike Castle
2001-05-03 12:32 ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 12:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 13:24 ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 14:40 ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 16:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 17:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-30 1:36 ` CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30 1:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 2:13 ` [kbuild-devel] " John Cowan
2001-04-30 2:24 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 5:41 ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30 5:50 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 6:12 ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30 6:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 7:11 ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30 7:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 14:25 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-04-30 15:54 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 10:57 ` John Cowan
2001-04-30 13:30 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-04-30 13:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-30 7:05 ` volodya
2001-04-30 7:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 7:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 9:09 ` [Moving rapidly offtopic] " Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-30 16:16 ` nick
2001-04-30 17:12 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 17:20 ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30 17:25 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-30 19:44 ` [kbuild-devel] " Gerhard Mack
2001-04-30 19:47 ` nick
2001-04-30 3:26 ` volodya
2001-04-30 7:52 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30 8:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 16:17 ` volodya
2001-04-30 8:13 ` Anton Altaparmakov
[not found] ` <15084.12830.973535.153706@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2001-04-29 22:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
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