Re: OFF-TOPIC (NON-PD): Reviewing e-mail 101 -- Bill is busted!

[Carole Hercun <grinchcsh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill, keep the signature signature AND the sign-off
messages.      Carole


--- "William A. Parrette" <wap@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>         It has been brought to my attention that I --
> even with all of
>      my yipping and yapping about quoting, MIME types,
> and HTML -- vi-
>      olate common 'Netiquette guidelines.  And, I would
> like to apolo-
>      gize to the list for that.
>
>         There  is  a  'Netiquette guideline that suggests
> that "signa-
>      tures" -- in my case, the bubble-font spelling of
> my  last  name
>      the  ASCII-art,  and  the tag line -- should be no
> more than four
>      lines long.  Typically, my signature can vary
> between  8  and  12
>      lines in length.  I apologize.
>
>         Since  the  term "gobbledegoop" was used to
> describe my signa-
>      ture, I'll assume that a large number of
> list-subscribers do  not
>      have  the ability to change the font used by their
> mail client to
>      read messages.  The term would describe exactly what
> my signature
>      looked like if the reader was viewing it with a
> proportional font
>      (Helvetica, Times, Palatino, and the like).  To
> make  any  sense
>      out  of  everything except the tag line, one would
> have to change
>      their mail client's font to a mono-spaced font
> (Courier,  Termi-
>      nal, Typewriter, and the like).
>
>         So,  rather  than  make  a  decision  based  on
> one opinion. I
>      thought I might solicit input from other
> list-members.   *PLEASE*
>      do this off-list to avoid cluttering up the
> list-mail with unnec-
>      essary, off-topic responses.  But, if you would like
> me to  loose
>      the  signature  or  keep the signature in my list
> posts (sorry --
>      you're stuck with them in personal correspondence
> :-)  )  let  me
>      know in a private, off-list reply to this message.
>
>         Thanks, in advance ...
>
> Bill--
>   ...who says that a blow with a word strikes deeper than
> a blow with a sword.


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