"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> In one thread, someone replied that someone's signature was really just a small
> scene.  Because it "didn't fit into the typical sig size.
> https://news.povray.org/2q9m9u4d4ltskajs3a0mjvhsnr4gq5o94e%404ax.com

Oh, the weird things you find, when playing with this stuff:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/McQuary_limit

Also:
The McQuary limit is a netiquette rule that limits the size of a Usenet
signature line to four lines, each no longer than 80 characters. The limit is
named after George F. McQuary, a frequent contributor to the newsgroup
alt.fan.warlord.
Explanation
The McQuary limit was sometimes still used on Usenet as the maximum acceptable
size of a sig block, even after the bandwidth explosion of the early 1990s.
Before this explosion, long signatures cost money for people who ran Usenet
servers.

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