*BE GREEN AND READ FROM THE SCREEN*

Nuff said.

@ Craig Betts:

Guys, get over it already. Whi gives a shit what someone else puts in their signature. Its their fucking signature isn’t it?

ima@hotmail.com

I can’t believe no-one has even touched on the MOST rediculous email sig habit. Including a sig over and over on every reply of the email trail – especially on an internal email. If you must have a sig, set the setting to not include sig on replies and forwards etc by default. If you do need it on a forward, just manually enter it.

These offenders are the biggest wankers of all. I don’t need to know the phone, fax, email, fav quote, logo, save paper bullshit from a person I have been working with for over 10 years – at all – let alone on every reply.

BTW, yes I know this is an old posting, even the last comment is over a year old, but the topic got me going

End rant
ASM

Great rant, found it when Googling ‘stupid email signatures’ to prove a point to my controller. As many have said, email address in signature is a good thing when dealing with forwarded emails. I can’t tell you how many business emails I have been forwarded that required a reply to the original sender only for me to have a name only in the email body.

Down with stupid signatures!

Yeah my company inserted their confidentiality thing in the bottom of my e-mails, quite the annoyance!

@Jake: Yeah, perhaps I should do that. :)

The best are the emails with mangled HTML which just cannot be rendered properly in KMail. I don’t know which client produces those but I get them every once in a while and they suck. :P

@Luke Maciak: No, I have it display text mode first, if available, and then HTML mode. You can switch in the description box below the emaill. The rendering works fairly well for HTML emails, or at least for some of the newsletter I still takes.

I love Kontact and K-Mail. =)

@Jake: Yeah, I keep it disabled on purpose – mainly so that I don’t have to see the 8 color signatures.

Kmail shows me a box on top of the email which says “to view the HTML click here” and then “to display stupid images click here, but I wouldn’t bother if I were you”.

@Luke Maciak: KMail lets you easily switch to HTML mode for an email. Do you have this disabled? I find this nice, especially for Hotmail emails. Hotmail can’t even keep line breaks when it converts to text format.

@Swamy: Ok, I’ll give on the email thing. It’s not so bad I guess.

Company logo though – no! Unprofessional! If you include an image in your sig your email is automatically sent as HTML or worse (shudder) a word attachment. This means it will either look like crap in Mutt/Pine and Kmail or in worse case scenario will force me to:

1. Download the .dat attachment file
2. Extract it using ktnef or similar tool
3. Open your email in Open Office
4. Go back to my email client to reply

Ugh! It’s just inconsiderate, and don’t say “get a better email client” because this is precisely the attitude of Outlook users which prompted this post.

Also I have yet to see anyone going “Oh no! I can’t forward you this email because it has a disclaimer”. To dissuade someone from forwarding the email to my enemies, that someone would first have to read the disclaimer. And I can guarantee you that 99.99999% of people stop reading as soon as they hit that “NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY” heading. To me this is basically an End of File indicator. :)