Don't be silly. Punctuation is a vital part of ensuring the legibility of text.WellbythatdeffinitionweshouldjustbanuseofspacesbecausetheyarejustrepettivenoiseWeshouldalsobanuseofpunctuationandanycharactersbesidesAZand09Whilewereatitwhynotjustbanuseofthewordsandtheimeorastheyrejustrepettivenoise.
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Well by that deffinition we should just ban use of spaces because they're just repettive noise. We should also ban use of punctuation and any characters besides A-Z and 0-9. While were at it why not just ban use of the words and, the, I, me, and or, as they're just repettive noise.
See how much space that saves? People with netbooks should just *love* that!
It's more about the post/not-post ratio than anything else. If you have a line or two of post and 11 lines of signature (which doesn't add anything to the discussion topic) then the signal to noise ratio is pretty low.
Still not quite retired yet. Still a few things to sort out. However, you'll be rid of me soon, don't worry [I thought you were "not an admin anymore" and "retired">
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