You Actually Want to Be On the .Sigs Page?
In the couple of years before I put up my Web pages I occasionally copied to a text file some Usenet newsgroup .sigs I found interesting so that I could peruse them occasionally for my amusement (I may be too easily amused). When I put up my home page I thought I'd go ahead and add the .Sigs page (I checked with each .sig author first to see if they'd mind me using their .sig on the page). At that time I didn't think up a .sig submission standard, since I didn't anticipate needing one; I just added (some of) what I ran across. To my bemusement, some (other) people have not only looked at the .Sigs page but asked me to include their .sig (no one, unfortunately, looks at my resume page). I suppose I should create some kind of standard for including a .sig; this seems like a good one: 1) I have to actually see the .sig in a newsgroup (this is the "excuse for not adding your .sig without having to say I don't like your .sig" standard); and 2) I have to happen to like the .sig (this is the "arbitrary and capricious" standard). So if you really want your fifteen minutes of fame and you think that getting your .sig on my page is the way to get it (a terrible delusion), send e-mail directing me toward your .sig (you'll have to navigate back to my home page to find my e-mail address--I want my fifteen minutes of fame too). Just don't ever look here for a fancy pants forms-based submissions page (token parentheses added here since this was the only sentence that didn't have any)!
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