On 2014-07-21 21:59 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan composed:
Rules are for a purpose and support the community. Those wishing to partake of that communities fruits must abide by it's rules.
To do so in fact requires understanding them. The OP here apparently misreads .sigs to mean content, which it isn't by any authoritative definition on the web that I've encountered in my use of the web for over 17 years. Message content ends at the following: -- Whatever follows it is what constitutes a .sig, not message content.
one who does not abide is slapping your face, especially when knowling, purposly showing disrespect.
The web in general, and to be sure including opensuse.org pages, has been
espousing that that's OK for over a decade now, not in words, but in deed, by
the way it styles content using CSS. It's little short of universal now that
web sites either disregard user personalization of their personal computing
devices via presumtively optimal browser default font sizes entirely, or set
base or dominant sizes that are some small fraction of that same
presumptively optimal browser setting[1].
Another matter for the instant case is that I've not been posting "in the
forums" as that term is most widely taken to mean. That is, in the more
widely used sense, forum means a web site, such as
http://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php or
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/index.php which is normally accessed via a web
browser. In contrast, I've been posting to newsgroups, where users instead
use news or mailnews readers and NNTP to post in same manner as they do via
mailing lists. (At the end of this message are the complete headers from my
latest message there copied and pasted from my news agent's file copy.[3])
To use the broader meaning of forum means not only access via browser (web)
and NNTP (news), but also mailing list subscription. Using the broader
meaning, The .sig I've been using has been in constant use, exactly the same,
at least as far back as March 2011 (where a switch was made from a very
similar quote[2] that had been in use, also for an extended period):
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-03/msg00826.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde3/2011-03/msg00099.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-03/msg00669.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2011-04/msg00058.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-testing/2011-06/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-multimedia/2011-10/msg00000.html
For 2011, where the current .sig was in use less than a full year, I count a
minimum of approximately 1,464 messages posted to the opensuse@ mailing lists
using that .sig. For 2012 I count 1,584; for 2013, 1,592; and to date for
2014, 1,174. Those 5,814 messages over a 40+ month period with the identical
.sig without complaint from list admins amount to tacit approval of it. To
attempt to disapprove it now, without justifiably changing the current
guidelines to deviate from similar guidelines in similar forums and
authoritative RFC definition and related constructions WRT SMTP and NNTP
messaging cannot be construed as anything other than arbitrary and capricious
censorship.
[1] http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/defaultsize.html
[2] prior .sig head from
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-03/msg00705.html :
"How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose
understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV
[3] From - Mon Jul 21 19:37:31 2014
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:37:31 -0400
From: Felix Miata