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

[Joan Hartman <jmh13@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keep the signature, Bill......Joan Hartman
----- Original Message -----
From: Carole Hercun <grinchcsh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC (NON-PD): Reviewing e-mail 101 -- Bill is busted!


> 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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