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McQuary limit

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. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess." Compare {low-bandwidth}; see also {brainwidth}. This generalized usage began to go mainstream after the Internet, population explosion of 1993-1994.
  2. Attention span.
  3. On {Usenet}, a measure of network capacity that is often wasted by people complaining about how items posted by others are a waste of bandwidth.
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