On 1/1/02 4:07 PM, "Adam Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What a peculiar idea! Why would you want your signature only on new >> messages? Oh - I get it. On Windows email clients generally, and Outlook in >> particular, the default is to reply at the top with enormous strings of the >> whole previous discussion at the bottom. Why see the signature 17 times? >> Right. >> >> On the Mac, the tradition is to reply at the bottom by default. > > Most Windows clients do not encourage jeopardy quoting. It is not a Windows > tradition. It is an Internet tradition. Only one vendor notoriously violates > that tradition, thankfully. First and foremost, a huge thank you to Paul for the scripts, they save me a ton of time. Despite the obvious anti-Microsoft rehtoric in both responses to my post (which I find ironic on a list dedicated to a MS product), I'd like to point out a couple reasons why my request makes sense on ANY platform: 1) Many times the people I write don't need my full signature. I get several hundred e-mails per day asking me tech questions or responding to something I wrote. The people who e-mail me will never really need my phone number or mailing address, so why should I waste space sending it? This is true for the first message to them as well as subsequent replies, so using key commands that eliminate extraneous information is a huge time savings. 2) I trade numerous e-mails with co-workers who are already well aware of who I am and how to reach me, so using "Jake" or "J" is more than sufficient for a signature. 3) Being able to decide when and where a signature gets added should be a user's choice, not the software. -- Jake Ludington Contributing Editor/Radio Show Host [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877.826.6777 Lockergnome 108 3rd Street Suite 305A Des Moines, IA 50309 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
