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- Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/11/2007, -3/+46One of the most humorous sigs I saw was this:
"No trees were harmed by this message. However, several million electrons were terribly inconvenienced." - andre75, on 10/11/2007, -7/+40Huh, no ASCII art?
/_/
( o.o )
> ^ - VogonBard, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26When I can't tell what the hell someone's ascii art is, I feel out of touch with one of those obscure art forms that no one really understands.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/11/2007, -10/+32How about 6 ways to digg a completely useless article? ***** me sideways, this is some stupid ass *****.
And how the ***** is this "News » World & Business » Offbeat News"??? - lukee, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23Seven lines? Short?
...you've got to be kidding me. - BrokenWind, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21Be "real"- use real text format (html email is for ████s)
- Angostura, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13No. Plain text is your friend.
- rudy23, on 10/11/2007, -10/+20Rule #1
dont use signatures. - FloppyLlamaDigg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11What, no contact info?
- dogstylee, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Scraping the bottom of the barrel now Digg.... I was gonna make a joke about how there's gonna be a digg about how to tie your shoes, but I remember now that someone dugg that a few days ago.
- BillehBob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Traditional mail/sig separator is -- . That is dash-dash-space.
And 7 or 8 lines ? No way. 4. No more than that.
Good lord, does no one here remember alt.fan.warlord ?
HAND. HTH. - jasnmb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9The majority of the work-related email I send is to my co-workers who already know my contact info, so I rarely include an email signature that has more than my name. My co-workers don't need see my business group, job title, email, website, phone number, hair color, height, and shoe size on every single email I send.
- Feezo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
ALCpSYRkxHgWMq13I1xNvYCeZrxm366QdRH+AdcTYBcReM+7Ki+qe7E2keh+drhq
+pG4cjTEs1yocsVkbsVbiwVV
yK06T
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
...What? What else is there? - 4815162342, on 10/11/2007, -2/+91. Avoiding misspellings such as your's.
- tehgoatman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9*goes to remove witty quote from signature*
- parkermauney, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7My sig:
FAVORITE LINKS!!!1!
HTTP://MTV.COMIT'SAWESOM
HTTP://SWERT16.COMITSAWSM2
(Huge pic of chinese dude pissed his pants)
THANKS FOR READING MAH POSTS!
I LOVE YOU
I
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V
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Y
O
U
!
!
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!
!
/signature
/sarcasm - LordSkywalker, on 10/11/2007, -7/+13Your Name
Your Title
Your Company
That's all you need. More than 3 lines is excessive and ugly. - jeolmeun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7A phone number in signature is convenient for others. A Blackberry can detect and dial it.
- tracker5kx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7mine is "Vandelay Industries"
- sciszewski, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6people with jobs
- philippbock, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Yeah, you’re safe with Arial, but shouldn’t we at least be allowed Verdana? Or Comic Sans MS (only joking)?
(Or, even better, just don’t use fonts in your E-Mails.) - ChayD, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Sorry, but Dugg down as "Well, duh..."
- trishussey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5That is another good point. That's why I try to keep mine simple w/o HTML as much as possible. Though Outlook 2007 likes to sneak it in regardless.
- Spr0k3t, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3< plain text>
$body
(dash)(dash)(space)
$userName, $title
$companyName
PH: $phoneNumber FX: $faxNumber
< /plain text> - jockser, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Text should be pink on a black background, use blinking text and more of those cool effects.
my favorite quote: "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989" - trollick, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6I ***** hate it when the message is 1 line long and the signature is 10 lines long. ***** hate it. What a waste of ***** everything.
- lukee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Man, did we not give smurf22 the memo yet? Yeah, the digg AACS revolt was a while ago; we're now on the digg Comments Threading revolt. Thanks for coming out, though.
- zachninme, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Why the ████ are people using these???
- Battlecry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Even though it's not really done anymore, the best rule to follow with email signatures is the same one to follow when writing an actual letter. If it's an official message, you sign it with the appropriate name, title, whatnot. If the message is sent in a non-official capacity, don't sign it at all. The people you're sending to either know who you are or don't need to know where you work and what your title is.
- qishi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Nobody cares what your favorite quote of the day is. Nobody gives a ***** what song you are listening to in iTunes. Most likely, nobody even gives a damn what is in the *content* of your mail. The best signature is at most one line long containing your name. Maybe some contact info if it was anything anybody would care to contact you about, which it probably isn't. Anything more makes you an attention whoring dumbass. And putting anything signature-like on a message board when your username is above it is even more retarded than this article.
- grimstar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Not funny...I scrolled up to see if that really was a new Bury It function.
- trishussey, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7I added a 7th summed up as "Arial is your friend". Boring as it might be, it works.
- elfhat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+37 lines is definitely not short. When will people learn that your sig. should not be any longer than the email you're sending?
- ps3udov3ctor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I once got royally flamed by an old school hacker that I worked for when I sent an email with a signature of 8 lines. He insisted that the standard netiquette is 4 lines max. I've had my signatures that length ever since.
- xpankrat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3For those who did not read the article. The pearl advice goes like this - "Keep it short. Seven lines is good."
I assume the length of 70 characters per line is also good. Otherwise the sig becomes hard to notice. - derning, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Sorry to hear that, Grandpa.
- kp3469, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2If i could digg your comment twice, I would. Next tip on pimpyourwork.com ... how to open Microsoft Word and type a sentence!
- crazybugger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2mine is 3 lines.
- wmarcello, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Working with the military, I die a little inside everytime some high-ranking military guy uses Comic Sans as his signature font.
- defaria, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Those "mandatory confidentiality notices" are pure *****. They attempt to scare the recipient by using legal mumbo jumbo but such legal ramblings have absolutely 0 weight. If you email somebody and get say the wrong email address it is not unlike showing in the park. How dare you say that I must somehow legally ignore what was said if it wasn't meant for me?!? Tough luck bud - you shouted it - you lost control of it. I have no obligation to honor your silly confidentiality notice!
- grawity, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1101% truth.
- Amablue, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Amen
- Alex - Angostura, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1* < - Perth
- smurf22, on 10/11/2007, -10/+11My sig is 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0
- booshack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dugg down as inaccurate: 7 lines is not short. 4 lines max for initial email. In the following conversation: "Best Regards/Cheers/etc, %name"
Repeat after me: 4 lines for initial and conclusive mails, 1-2 lines during the conversation/thread. This will make your mails feel much more personal. - ChromaVita, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Done
- phizz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Nerd.
- compgeek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1my email sig short and to the point my name (my email adress just so if you forget it or delete it or w/e)
- M2Ys4U, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1no explicit font you dipstick.
Leave it for the recipient's client to display as they wish. - sephiroth965, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Eww. Did they just recommend arial? Use helvetica at least...
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