On May 17, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 1:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
At 10:31 AM 5/17/2006, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
as opposed to annoying "copyright notifications" attached to email
published to mailing lists, that state information that is wholey
meaningless within the context of a publicly distributed mailing
list, so therefore nothing more than junk bytes your forcing
mailservers to digest?
Read mine. ;)
that's what i was referring to. it's nothing but junk bytes. it
accomplishes nothing, and adds *no* useful information to the message.
It does several things: specifically acknowledges the public nature of
email, and clarifies accepted use vs. non-accepted use.
<snip>
How about this...just a one line URL to a place you maintain as a
website with that information, so people don't have to be subjected to
the same boilerplace template stamp every time they read your email?
It's less to trim with replies, it's less to read as a mental blah blah
blah, and %90 of the time your readers probably don't care about your
copyright, or if they did they read it once and don't need it over and
over and over again.
THERE's an useful feature in email...template blocks that your email
program can hide selectively. Wanna read the sig? Click. Wanna read
the disclaimer? Click. Otherwise...dude, I don't want to read that.
Just give me that bloody message. This is another concept that
top-posters can seem to understand. They love supposedly reading in
reverse order the previous emails. But there are some that insist on a
9-line sig EVERY TIME getting embedded so (especially for Exchange) you
get lines of from/to/subj/time/etc then a blurb of quoted crap then
this huge sig then more exchange headers with repeated blurb from
before and more of the same bloody sig...I get it, I have your title, I
have your cell number, your work number, your fax number, your address,
PLEASE STOP MY EYES ARE BLEEDING. Maybe even find a way to have top
posted emails turn the previous mails into hidden blocks so they aren't
so obnoxious...
It's been one of those weeks.
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