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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {sig block}{warlording}]