One's John Hancock
Wilf Leblanc
elaborate autograph, a voluminous signature to placate
one's swollen ego, or does a paltry one suggest honesty,
integrity and a certain sincerity ??
I move that the latter is a requirement for syntactic
encounters of the tactical kind, and should be entered
into the list of oft queried queries.
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bq
antebi
)Tactically speaking, of course, does one require an
)elaborate autograph, a voluminous signature to placate
)one's swollen ego, or does a paltry one suggest honesty,
)integrity and a certain sincerity ??
)
)I move that the latter is a requirement for syntactic
)encounters of the tactical kind, and should be entered
)into the list of oft queried queries.
)
)
)bq
I agree. As far as being tactical, sigs should be nice and simple and
on the small side. Actually, the smaller the better and you can't get
any smaller than not having one.
Also, names mean a lot, tactically speaking, a name like THE RAMJAM or
MR.IMGONNAFLAMEYOU does not bode well as far a being subtle. Try Jack or
Jill or Adam or Eve...nice and simple, like the rest of the world.
Fever Germ
CEO/GM A.S.T.
Wilf Leblanc
[...]
>Also, names mean a lot, tactically speaking, a name like THE RAMJAM or
>MR.IMGONNAFLAMEYOU does not bode well as far a being subtle. Try Jack or
>Jill or Adam or Eve...nice and simple, like the rest of the world.
[...]
Right. Unless of course the tactic is not syntactically tactical,
in which case it wouldn't matter. The moral, tactically speaking,
would be to *not* flame anyone if you happened to have a name such as
"MR.IMGONNAFLAMEYOU", and let other peoples pre-conceived notions
commence hostilities. If someone thinks you are an "undesireable"
element of newsgroup x.y, *only* because of the arrangement of
characters in your sig or name (so-called "char-racism" or simply
"characism") then tactically speaking, hostile tactics are welcomed.
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bq
Mark Kille
>ant...@phakt.usc.edu (antebi) writes:
Hmm. Along those lines, you can get lots of interesting reactions depending
on your e-mail address--people seem to be especially ready to pass judgement
on folks with Ivy-League addresses, for example. Making a big deal about
having such an address, but not blatantly--by putting your address in your
.sig, for example, where it looks like you're being informative instead of
boastful--could be a useful tactic. Alternatively, you could just be really
inflammatory in a stereotypically elitist way, and let other readers of the
newsgroup discover your address on your own; discovering it themselves makes
the self-righteous indignation that much more intense...
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