I agree about sigs being humerous and informal or interesting. 
Many people don't understand mine, and sometimes I'll gat a phone
call from someone asking if I could re-send that email because it
had an error message at the end and my email address. 

Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
> Matt Giwer <mgi### [at] giwersworldorg> wrote:
> :       And that is a good thing? To post something as a sig that only
> : those familar with obscure legal but unprofession C code can read
> : if they want to waste the time?
> 
> :       Please explain why and exercise in obscurity is a good thing.
> 
> :       Yes, you are very clever. Yes you are a horrible example of the
> : art of programming.
> 
>   First of all, you should read http://www.ioccc.org/. I quote:
> 
> >     Goals of the Contest
> >
> >     To write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program under the rules below.
> >     To show the importance of programming style, in an ironic way.
> >     To stress C compilers with unusual code.
> >     To illustrate some of the subtleties of the C language.
> >     To provide a safe forum for poor C code. :-)
> 
>   Signatures are not part of a contest, but you should get an idea about
> what's the mentality behind obfuscated C (or any other programming language).
>   Signatures usually contain information about the sender, but often they
> also have some interesting things, like quotes, url's, jokes, etc.
>   My signature is intended to be a kind of riddle (in the context of
> obfuscated C). Often someone gets curious about what does it do and then
> tries to compile and run it and gets surprised. Sometimes these people
> write to me asking me how is it done. They feel the joy of discovering
> something unexpected.
>   The signature seldom offends or annoys anyone. It's just 2 lines long,
> it's always located at the very end of the text and it doesn't add anything
> else to the article. That is, it doesn't disturb the reading of the article.
> Everyone can (or at least should) see that it's just a signature.
> 
>   And besides, why do you whine about the _contents_ of my signature? I
> have never said anything about the contents of your signature. It's only
> the way you send it which is annoying. There should be absolutely no reason
> to blame anyone for the contents of his/her signature.
>   However, if I use a gif as my signature and send it uuencoded or
> mime-encoded, that's not good anymore.
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

-- 
Cheers
Steve

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