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Just so that I am clear on your issue here: You believe it is "okay" for you to put your linkedin URL in your .sig, but Gadi must not be allowed to put it at the top of a post?
Yes, I think that's exactly right. It's a statement of what the sender perceives to be important about the email. I read email for the content; having the URL at the top is an assertion by the poster that he thinks his resume is more important than what he says. (Yes, I know some of you are about to hit reply to say "maybe it is from Gadi". Don't bother -- what he says is often quite valuable.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Patrick, I would say that "we" have a long history of tolerating certain content within a signature that might not be appropriate within a message itself; my own opinion would be that inclusion of this sort of thing outside of the signature is inappropriate, except perhaps where it would fall within the scope of the purpose of the list. Steve, it is intriguing that you would make such a statement, since you clearly believe that your own signature is sufficiently worthwhile that you do not separate it from the main message with a signature separator, which would cause those of us who have clients configured to grey out or eliminate signatures to ignore "less valuable" signature content. I do appreciate that your signature is refreshingly brief, however. ;-) Paul, who I believe originally complained about this, I would have agreed with your complaint had it clearly been part of a pattern of behaviour on Gadi's part. However, a one-time inclusion of unacceptable text should probably be overlooked. There are very few of us who have /never/ made a cut and paste error, failed to trim content, misattributed a message, failed to attribute a message, or made any of a hundred other minor sins. You wouldn't want a bunch of us to pile on you the next time you make a speeling mysteak. You might also want to make sure you put your LinkedIn URL in your SIGNATURE, after a signature separator, because from where I sit, your message closely resembles Gadi's, because you included a LI URL in the BODY of your message. Gadi, you do have an aura that surrounds you of vague self-promotion, and you seem to rub some people the wrong way. You might want to consider not including an automatic signature if you don't intend to use it on a majority of messages, because clearly there is a chance of operator error when deleting the unintended text. Joe, you obnoxious jerk, you include TWO signatures in your messages, one "initials only" one before the signature separator, and a fully compliant one after. Pick one or the other! ("But it helps clarify attributions, etc!") ;-) There. Now we have a mountain made out of a molehill! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. (*groan*) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.