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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>McQuary limit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html" title="maximum Maytag mode"/><link rel="next" href="meatspace.html" title="meatspace"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">McQuary limit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="meatspace.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="McQuary-limit"/><dt xmlns="" id="McQuary-limit"><b>McQuary limit</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the name of the founder of <tt class="systemitem">alt.fan.warlord</tt>; see
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<a href="../W/warlording.html"><i class="glossterm">warlording</i></a>.] 4 lines of at most 80 characters each,
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sometimes still cited on Usenet as the maximum acceptable size of a
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<a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>. Before the great bandwidth explosion of
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the early 1990s, long sigs actually cost people running Usenet servers
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significant amounts of money. Nowadays social pressure against long sigs
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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
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