> Okay, you make a fair case for including a parenthetical "(Sent from my phone > -- pardon my brevity)" or such, specifically in those cases that call for it > -- if I take the time to tap out a full response, or my answer was short > anyway, then such a note is superfluous.
Plus, brevity is not a bad thing. To wit, the famous aphorism "Please forgive the length of this letter, I did not have time to make it shorter." What people are really apologizing for is sloppiness, not brevity – or at least that's what they *should* be apologizing for. But that's also true of most e-mails composed at a proper keyboard as well. > But there is more than an iota of difference between "Sent from my phone" and > "Sent from my iPhone". The latter strikes me as bragging, or even > proselytizing. It And can get you into hot water, as a friend of mine discovered when he got an enraged phone call (well, eventually, he's far too high up to have gotten it directly) from a Verizon executive who had just sent an e-mail to her co-workers with that particular message automatically included. Oops. d.
