Twitter rules

[Lobster]

But who would actually 'follow' such a feed?

I'm inclined to think the biggest effect could be attracting spammers to the newsgroup...

[The Natural Philosopher]

twits, mainly.

no. just twits. Harry was getting lonely..

[Dave W]

I am reading this in Free Agent 1.0, and there's no fancy right-clicking dictionary facility here.

-- Dave W

[Dave W]

Oh no, not another one! Too many posters think they can change the world by appending their posts with unfunny sayings or long declarations. It's difficult to pick out actual posts amongst all the repeated full quotes and irrelevant guff.

-- Dave W

[The Natural Philosopher]

except when it doesn't sound like the sea.

rein reign weird seine neigh deity deism theism seize ..etc etc..

[The Natural Philosopher]

After I-pod, came I phone, and, finally I-ache.

[Adrian]

In message , Dave W writes

If people used :

a. a proper sig separator (dash dash space) (yours is just dash dash) b. decent software

then the sig block would only be seen in the original posting.

Adrian

[Tim Streater]

You forgot weight. And meight (as in "my meight marmeight" etc).

[John Rumm]

Indeed. TB renders anything below a sig separator in a mid grey so its less "visible" when reading, and trims it completely when replying.

[Tim+]

*tsk*. iPod, iPhone and, presumably iAche (if you're going to be consistent). ;-)

Tim

[geoff]

Does that include Bob ?

[Bob Eager]

Only me. Everyone else gets eyes ache.

[Tim Watts]

I blame Dennis (a nickname), my physics teacher. I was good at English before that. Bloody good physics teacher though...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Mac user, innee?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

You've got Forte Free Agent, which is perfectly capable of snipping sigs.

[Adam Funk]

[Richard]

;)

[Tim Streater]

Windows users *always* make sweeping generalisations. That's why I like to do the reverse, making a Mac-based statement with an *innocent look* implying that I assume that everyone uses a Mac.

I occasionally do the same on some ng's where the preponderance of posters are septics who irritatingly assume that all posters are septics. I make a UK-centric post (and see also my .sig) and then express astonishment that there are non-British posters on the ng. Fools at least one every time.

[Bob Eager]

I like doing that too. Although my spelling is a bit of a giveaway (not that they notice).