On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Jay Gagnon wrote:
> On 10/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > On 10/31/07, Ed Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > --
> > > Ed Gorman
> > > 1-800-817-0842
[snippage]
> >
> > Your signature is 20 lines long. Perhaps you have difficulty with
> > decimal points? Typically signatures are closer to TWO lines or so.
> > Your signature was over 6 times the length of your actual message.
> >
> > Just like in real society, we all have to abide by certain, sometimes
> > arbitrary, guidelines so that we maximize the happiness of all parties
> > involved. Please trim your signature, thanks.
> >
> > -jlf
>
>
> I'd like to add my perhaps more tempered agreement on this one. I don't
> know if societal norms need to be invoked, but advertising in a signature
> has always kind of irked me, especially when it's not in any way related to
> the list. If somebody were looking for linux sysadmins or linux work a line
> or two would seem appropriate, but a paragraph advertising nutritional
> pseudoscience referral-based sales is a bit much.
>
> -Jay
Old-skool chime-in: [from RFC 1855]
- Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
with a carriage return.
...
- If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb
is no longer than 4 lines. Remember that many people pay for
connectivity by the minute, and the longer your message is,
the more they pay.
Granted the justification for a 4 x 65 .sig is dated, but the manners persist:
don't overload your recipients with spam.
ff
--
I'm not a medievalist, I just play one on weekends...
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