Jon LaBadie writes: > Another example of this: I typically bottom/in-line > respond even private emails. As most of you may > note I have a lot of personal info in my standard > signature. Yet even people with whom I've had many > exchanges will ask my address or phone number.
Some email clients, like gmail, hide the signature. To check, I bounced your message to a gmail account I have, and sure enough, it doesn't show the signature with the phone numbers. But I tried another message where I deliberately top-posted, then added a signature with "-- " before the quoted text, and it did show that one. So it hides a signature if it's just a signature, but shows it if there's quoted text after it (at least in my extensive test of 2 samples and one webmail client). But I agree most top-posters never read the quoted text even when their mail client shows it to them. All that quoting is a complete silly waste of space and bandwidth, except in one very special edge case: the "You weren't CCed on this discussion, but you should have been, adding you in now" case. ...Akkana