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mcqua·ry limit

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  1. McQuary limitnoun

    The rule of netiquette stating that the text of a Usenet signature, or sig, should be less than 80 columns wide and no longer than four lines.

  2. Etymology: After George F. McQuary, a frequent contributor to the newsgroup where flamboyant signatures were criticised.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. 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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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mcquary limit in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mcquary limit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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