On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 1:03 AM, Scott at HobbyLink Japan sent forth:
>>Last night and this morning, I have spent about an hour trying to >>organize my signatures - dragging them around one at a time. > >You can easily solve this problem by having just one signature. > >To each their own, but what is all this obsession people have with >signatures? I can see having a business one and perhaps a personal one, >but an hour seems like an awful amount of time to spend organizing >something that I almost never read on other people's mail. Except for >the part with their name. These days, I generally find those bits of >"wisdom" that many people insist on appending to their mail to be >pretentious and cloying, frankly. > >--- > >Scott T. Hards > I tend to agree with Scott that signatures have become rather silly, with one exception. Quite a few people today have more than one email account. These accounts reflect work, family, school and sometimes a purely personal one. Also, people can have signatures with special identifiers, such as the one below a lot of PM users have. Put together, it can add up to quite a list per person. Unless you propose to use separate email packages or databases within one package for each and every account you have, it makes more sense to allow for multiple signatures in some easy and powerful way. That is why I propose to have signatures tied to both accounts AND address book entries. Thus if I'm mailing to a friend from this account, my standard signature shows up. If, instead, I'm mailing to this list, the signature you see below would automatically show up without me having to root through a bunch. Signature management is therefore no different, no harder and no less important, than address book or message management. -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] G4/AGP/400 OS 10.3.2 PowerMail 4.2.1 384 MB RAM 40+10 GB HDs
