[Rick TYler]

Just a suggestion that 200 pixels is not a requirement but an absolutely, positively largest size restriction. The old Usenet suggestion was no more than four lines of text -- and I think this is a fine idea. At 200 pixels, even on a big screen, it only takes four or five sigs to fill the screen. This means that the average three or four line post takes up a third of the screen. I would prefer to read what someone says about a thread topic than read (for the 50th time) their signature file. Frankly, most sigs aren't that interesting, and none of them are work seeing the 200th time.

I don't know why I'm complaining, though. I turned off "show sigs" a couple of months ago when I realized I was getting a callous on my "page down" finger due to all the huge (albeit marginally legal) sigs.

Just say "no" to big sig blocks. (TM)