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McQuary limit [from the name of the founder of alt.fan.warlord; see
warlording.] 4 lines of at most 80 characters each,
sometimes still cited on Usenet as the maximum acceptable size of a
sig block. Before the great bandwidth explosion of
the early 1990s, long sigs actually cost people running Usenet servers
significant amounts of money. Nowadays social pressure against long sigs
is intended to avoid waste of human attention rather than machine
bandwidth. Accordingly, the McQuary limit should be considered a rule of
thumb rather than a hard limit; it's best to avoid sigs that are large,
repetitive, and distracting. See also
warlording.
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