On May 2, 2007, at 4:01 PM, <andrew2@one.net> <andrew2@one.net> wrote:
Warren Kumari wrote:
On May 2, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
--- ronald.dasilva@twcable.com wrote:
On 5/1/07 7:19 PM, "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
Randy's MUA automatically deletes email sent directly to him...
Probably because you have a 12+ line .sig full of lawyer-speak.
Both practices arguably ingenious or idiotic... -----------------------------------------------------
Doesn't matter. He doesn't want to see the .sig and it's his email system. Others do the same.
I gotta admit it's a really big .sig that's utterly useless. It *IS* being disseminated, distributed and copied and on a global basis. It's "unlawful" in what country? No one's going to delete all copies. Blah, blah, blah...
I don't think that Ron is choosing to put this .sig in his mail, some ugly corporate mail gateway is probably appending it for him. While he could spend a huge amount of time trying to explain to someone at Time Warner that it is a stupid thing to do, I sure he has better things to do...
I don't see anywhere in the NANOG charter that says we have to use our corporate email addresses in correspondence with list. From what I've seen, most of us don't. I agree 100% that trying to get $corporation to remove the useless and annoying .sig's is like tilting at windmills. But for the sanity and comfort of other list users, would it be too much to ask that people with annoying tacked-on .sig's use a personal mail account when posting to the list? I hear Google offers nice email accounts for a reasonable price.
Yup, you are 100% correct -- I meant (but forgot) to mention that, other than when officially representing a company on a list, I always post from a personal address, regardless of whether or not $current_employer is doing silly .sigs or not. I have already gotten a bunch of private mails pointing this fact out (and one (spam) reply trying to sell me some sort of Chinese pharmaceuticals :-( ) which is why I am replying publicly... W
Andrew
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