People always were looking for some sort of profile to signal who they were. With Usenet it was the signature block. Intended as short contact blocks, they were

People always were looking for some sort of profile to signal who they were. With Usenet it was the signature block. Intended as short contact blocks, they were often repurposed into oversized sword wielding manifestos. https://www.lysator.liu.se/(v1)/etexts/iguide/chap4.bigsig.html https://www.lysator.liu.se/(v1)/etexts/iguide/chap4.bigsig.h... Also .plan files!