On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:10:20AM +0530, arnuld wrote: > > Umm, I can't control that. My employer has that put on all outbound e-mail. > > Hmm....you could have told that in your 1st email. the idea of *those* > signatures must have been proposed by some pointy-haired-boss [1]. > > anyway, sorry for that as that was not your intention (actually, i > already used "if" in my earlier reply :-) . next time, whenerver you > post on any mailing list/newsgroup, mention it explicitly. > > welcome to the Lisp World :-) Lisp folks are much helpful when it > comes to solving problems. you will have a good time. also check > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp
It's such a common practice of corporate employers that he probably just didn't think of it as something that needed explaining. In fact, most of the people reading this list probably didn't think anything of it until you had such a publicly negative reaction to the corporate sig block -- because most of us are probably entirely familiar with the phenomenon. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." - MacUser, November 1990 _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
