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Re: [Sheflug] Sigs Was: Re: MySQL



On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:12, Barrie Bremner wrote:
...
> My work account has a 806 character, 16 line monster appended to every
> email, thanks to M$ Exchange.
> 
> I'm very tempted to use my UNIX account for all email instead - not
> sure if there is an email gateway that will ruin email from there too,
> however. :-(

While at BT most of my e-mail came straight from unix boxes running
their own MTA - until Security decided that everything had to run
through the Microsoft Exchange servers.

Corporate policy was for a disclaimer in HTML (although I decided tgo
only ever sent plain-text). Marketing are a law to themselves! Not
everyone who writes software sticks to the confines of an RFC - let
alone the average user drifting across to Linux. 

Generally, I only glance a signatures, Brett's (and Anthony Hawkins)
signatures - I instantly decided was a 'boring' signatures, if there
were 100 lines I wouldn't spend the time reading it all. If the answer
to life's problems were on lines 99 & 100, well I'd have missed it. 
Ruth's signature I did read - but it didn't stike my sense of humor, no
great loss, and no need to complain.

I feel that the list is spoilt in someways by the 'religious' postings.
If you don't like a particular style, or it's not accessible to you -
then ignore it, it will go unanswered, and all will start to work out
naturally. HTML messages I ignore - these messages are rendered in such
as small font that I can't read it at a glance. 

Politely informing people that by posting in HTML they're probably going
to be ignored is acceptable, in my view, second guessing what annoys
other members of the list is far from accurate. 

-- 
Regards,
Adam Allen.

adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk
pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk

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