5/12/03 chris : >The internet is a VERY scary place, and any personal information you post >to it should be carefully screened so as not to hand over anything more >than you need to.
And then there's the ecological and community concerns: does one want his share of the collective resources to consist for a sizeable part of repetitive identical useless often irrelevant and soon obsolete information? (usual contacts don't need this, new or occasional contacts would ask for it when needed, future contacts may find it to be obsolete) That's what made me stop signing most emails altogether: signatures were often useful in the paper era, but why tell who wrote something to someone who just read your name at the top of the message? More info may be useful or required in business environments, but that's it: in real life we don't give business cards to everybody every time we speak. And everybody would find that annoying. On the other hand, I understand that people with too much, too few, or weird ego may need related signatures, which happens with hand signatures. In that case the purpose shifts from informative to expressive or therapeutic and all Cartesian objections are irrelevant. Hi, I'm VRic and I didn't give in to excessive signing for three weeks now. <collective>Hi, VRic.</collective> ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
