Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 23 June 2003 22:34, Chris I wrote: > > Just another clarification request? Back in the day it was used to > > separate one's signature from the message. This made it easy for > > scripts to parse incoming email (such as mailman or something), but why > > is this really neccessary on a regular basis? > > I don't know if you are a /. reader, but I am. I can not possibly sift > through the difference between some users' messages and their signatures. > Maybe it is due to the rampant incoherence on /. that I can not tell what is > a signature and what is a "writing." However, you do add some sort of > closing to a written letter (email or snail-mail) before your name, do you > not? >
Anouther reason being that some mail readers allow you to visualize signatures in anouther way or do not show them at all. Also it is possible to automatically not include signatures in replys. -- Hartwig Brandl Student of Telematics, Graz University of Technology, Austria A computer without Microsoft is like a choclate cake without mustard. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
