Signatures...

[Steve]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:20:42 -0000, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org>  
wrote:

> Johnneylee,
>
> On 29/01/2010 18:12, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>> Can we possibly not have 30 line signatures please? It's really
>> annoying and completely unprofessional.
>> It's feels like someone is applying for a job sending me their full
>> resume in a signature.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, I have to correct you here. It's VERY professional. Most
> marketing, sales, business development professionals include all / most
> of their contact details in their .sig, and sometimes the company logo
> in a bitmap. My company actually has templates for all employees with
> such signatures including bitmaps. We are ASKED to use them in e-mail.
>
> The you have the "legalese" that sometimes gets automatically added
> which says that the mail is company confidential blah blah blah.
>
> So... It's completely professional.
>
> But completely un-geeky. And not suited to pay-per-byte connexions that
> used to be in place last century (and, I understand, still in place in
> some areas on the planet).
>
> He's just doing what the majority does... not what the minority still  
> wants.
>
> Gilles.
>
That’s one of the reasons I don’t use my work email address, all sorts get  
appended to it before it disappears into the great wide world.
They are annoying but there is very little users can do about it, or  
should do about it if it’s company rules.



-- 
Steve