Glen, excuse me here, but i think you are aware that the TalkBoard of which you are a member introduced these general guidelines for signatures and that they did not specifically say that political signatures should be excluded. While i understand you may have a personal opinion on this, and so may i, the facts are that the member-elected TalkBoard did introduce these guidelines and whether i agree or disagree, it doesn't matter, i'm fine to follow those guidelines.

I did not say that all Australian political signatures were removed. In this single situation, several were removed or asked to be removed because of what members themselves created - a signature wart - all trying to out do the other in size and other features of their signature which was brought to the Moderators attention and at that moment, they could not ignore them as they had created a disruption. As for others, really, do we want Moderators to be forcefully out there handing out signature penalties? Is it that serious of a crime on FT? Sure, at least three members on FT will point out that this is proof that Mods are not enforcing the TOS consistently. I will not stand to change the general operating policy of trying to assist members to one that is trying to penalize members.

Some of this will become rather moot as we move to a more automated signature policy program. News of that will be announced shortly in the TalkMail newsletter.

But it does seem we agree - don't like signatures from other members, turn them off.

Hope this clarifies any misunderstanding there might be.