another nice one

[matt robinson]

In article <20540 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
>In article <11576 at smoke.BRL.MIL> (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>In article <20519 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
 
>==>==>    I forgot to ask. What do you mean by bandwidth and how does that
>==>==>relate to my signature?
>==>
>==>He means that the 240 or so characters in your "signature" (the one with all
>==>the @ characters) serve no useful function and use up network communication
>==>capacity that could be better used for transmitting potentially useful
>==>information.  Also, many sites have to PAY to receive or transmit that
>==>useless garbage.  Please show consideration and omit such decorations.
 
>I can't believe that four lines causes any significant problems.  Does
>anyone know how much is paid to recieve my .sig? .000000001 cents?
 
>Sounds like a mountain out of a mole hill to me. 
 
>Also, I don't consider it useless garbage. It allows someone to easily
>identify me. That was its purpose and it seems to serve it pretty well.
 
>I still don't know how .sig relates to bandwidth. 
 
                    yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore)
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The bandwidth he is referring to is the transmission (across lines,
usually rented through the phone company for various purposes, one of
them news) of your message through those rented lines, across different
nets to other machines across the country.  The bandwidth is a specific
allocation of this line to your message.  Your signature on the end of
your message takes up additional room on the bandwidth signal, thereby
keeping other messages from going through as quickly (thereby costing more
to other machines.)

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