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Here's a more typical corporate disclaimer example. I found this *after* the six lines of who sent this and what is his position and here are the best 16 ways to contact him.

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I totally agree. At the bottom of all my work emails a graphic, recent websites made, contact details and disclaimer are tacked on. My e-mails usually consist of 4 or 5 sentences.

Not like the old days of Usenet though. There you could be famous writing an overly long signiture. "Kibo" is one example

- Wikipedia Article
- His Signature

Signatures do not vex Voltan. The Evilscope has the capability to remove them automatically.

Sadly this sometimes also removes parts of the message. But no matter. Voltan has little time for the electronic pleas for mercy of those Voltan is in the process of smiting.

1) Disagree. These internal sig blocks really do speed up communication - it saves having to find a phone book for instance.
2) Agree. Complete waste of time.
3) Agree. That is the price of free.
4) Neutral. We all do it, our little bit of promotion for the current project. Relevance to the recipient is the most important thing so customised sigs are ideal.
5) Neutral. No real benefit but neither has the scent of roses.

The one that drives me mad is "Sent from my Blackberry handheld wireless device" Oh do piss off.

I agree with most of the stuff about sigs, they're a pain in the arse.

Corporate ones in particular are a nightmare.

As for personal ones? Never use 'em, thanks.

I was most disappointed that you hadn't made the link myblogisaworkofgenius.com bring up your homepage.

I agree - the length of most corporate ones in particular are a pain, although I don't have a problem with one-line personal.
What's worse is the fact that no one seems capable of deleting the monster signature when replying.

LOL - the corporate one is spot on, so much so that a small group of us no longer use email to communicate, Messenger is so much better..

And I think I fall into category 4, but it's more information than promotion.

Ohh OK, it's promotion. But I don't think I've ever emailed you so whadda you care!

But you can edit signatures? On my work one, I have job title and contact details, but for short emails I edit this out.

On personal emails I have my site name/URL. It's nothing more than base self-promotion, and I'll readily admit that.

A further print-out thing that irritates me beyond belief is airline booking emails. At airports, I get incredibly annoyed seeing people having printed 5 full sheets of paper for one six-character code. It's daft.

I've got something just like this at work

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Arf. With you, brother.

200 bonus points to the person who registers myblogisaworkofgenius.com

We used to have a '5 line' rule at the place where I worked .. people could tag on whatever they liked, but if it was more than 5 lines, the system chopped it off automatically!

we were recently made to add the legal disclaimer to the end of our sigs, in addition to being told how to format the name, job decription, location, phone no etc.

Considering 90 \\% of my emails are for internal use it all seems pointless.

My one's added automatically by exchange, but only to outgoing email which is something.

ahhhh, your mention of signature length brought back fond memories of alt.fan.warlord and all the pointless flamewars that took up far more bandwidth than a five-line signature.

These days i especially enjoy receiving messages that include multiple quoted replies, all of them including their massive signatures (with disclaimers, etc.).

Even worse is the multiply-forwarded email conversation where each entry has all the signatures and disclaimers intact...











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