Holy crap people... this got way out of hand. We're discussing a footer. a footer
This isn't rocket surgery. We either have it, or we don't. I turned it off on this list as a trial. Frankly, I like it simply because it's 4 less lines I have to remove when editing quotes. I do like the archive link there (getting to the headers via gmail is harder), but it's not critical to me. For the record, I DO believe that large signatures are annoying in the same way that a 4 line footer is annoying