Posted: Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 @ 15:37
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Pet hate #107.. people who don’t mark the start of their email signatures..
Everybody, pretty please, make sure you have a plain text email signature, with your contact details and a sig-marker (“– “) so my email client knows where your signature starts.
Thanks.
..delimited from the body of the message by a single line consisting of
exactly two hyphens, followed by a space, followed by the end of line (i.e.,
“– \r\n”). This latter prescription, which goes by many names, including
“sig dashes”, “signature cut line”, and “sig-marker”, allows software to
automatically mark or remove the sig block as the receiver desires.
Haha. Still stuck in the plain text anti-html-weapons century, I see?
Remember, guns don’t kill people
ignorance does.
My point exactly.
Are you saying people who just use the lame default MS pre-installed stuff like Outbreak with HTML and MS TNEF (winmail.dat) configs on their PCs are _not_ ignorant? Stop snorting all that orange sherbet.
I don’t mind people leaving the “– ” out, I do mind them trying to add the “– ” and failing. Like when they just add a “–”. Fail.
No, I’m saying that people who don’t understand the benefits that HTML mail brings, are.
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