Re: [Pan-users] Turning off warning about long signature

[Jim Henderson]

Heya, Danita. :-)

The 4-line limitation is something that is part of the GNKSA/2
validation that defines good newsreader behaviour on USENET.  See
http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/ for info on the seal.

In particular, item 15 reads in part:

"Hence, posting software SHOULD prevent the user from using excessively
long signatures, or at least warn the user against it.  A widely
accepted standard is the so-called McQuary limit: up to 4 lines, each up
to a maximum of 80 characters."

The only way to change the limitation is by modifying the code; you'll
find this for a number of pan's features.

What I would do (and used to do) is put the FAQ information on a web
page and then link to it from my signature; it doesn't get the same
exposure, true, but it does get the message to the end user without
hitting them with a signature that's longer than the message (not yours,
but another of our colleague's signature does that quite
frequently). :-)

Jim

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 19:20 -0700, Danita Zanre wrote:
> I work on the Novell support newsgroups, and have a bit of "FAQ"
> information in my signature - for those newsgroups this is considered
> acceptable :)
> 
> Is there a way to turn off the warning that my signature is longer than
> 4 lines and some lines are longer than 80 characters (long URLs I
> guess).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Danita
> 
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