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McQuary limit
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4 lines of at most 80 characters each, sometimes still cited on Usenet as
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the maximum acceptable size of a sig block. Before the great bandwidth
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explosion of the early 1990s, long sigs actually cost people running Usenet
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servers significant amounts of money. Nowadays social pressure against long
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sigs is intended to avoid waste of human attention rather than machine
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bandwidth. Accordingly, the McQuary limit should be considered a rule of
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thumb rather than a hard limit; it's best to avoid sigs that are large,
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repetitive, and distracting. See also warlording.
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