ROTFL what an honour ;-), as we are in to weekend mood anyway I share the reason for this. When I joined Colt my signature did look like this:

--- ___ ___ ___ ___ Ralf Weber t: +49 (0)69 56606 2780 \C/ \O/ \L/ \T/ System Administrator V V V V COLT Telecom GmbH f: +49 (0)69 56606 6280 IP Services e: rw@colt.net

As did everyone's, I think - it's great that we had such an ASCII-art-friendly logo :)

That was used until our lawyers decided that as with real letters it was their duty to design the fine print on email also. This lead to what you see now below. I don't like it but am bound to use it. In the signatur select box of my email program the signatur below is named "rw@colt.net violating RFC1855".

I moved all my work-related mailing-list subscriptions to personal email when the legal departments started getting hold of .sigs. It seems pretty much impossible these days to post from a work address to any external email at all without looking like an idiot. (Of course, just removing the legal boilerplate doesn't, in itself, *prevent* me from looking an idiot, before anyone goes for the obvious...) Regards, Tim.