[Gllug] Signatures

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 10 Jul 2002, t.clarke wrote:
>-------------------------------------------
>Message from:-
>Tim Clarke  (tim at seacon.co.uk)
>Seacon Group Ltd / Seacon Terminals Ltd,
>Tower Wharf, Northfleet, Kent, DA11 9BD, UK
>Telephone: +44 (0)1474 320000
>      Fax: +44 (0)1474 329946
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>I am sure all of you are probably correct about signatures going at the
>bottom.  But what constitues a signature ??

That does - rendered needlessly over the McQuary Limit by not making
use of the horizontal screen real estate available, and with support
from spurious ASCII lines.

>In a business environment (eg: me !), I would argue that an email is the
>electronic equivalent of a letter. And as we all know, letters are typed
>on 'letterheads' with a name/address and telephone number at the top and
>a signature (ie simple name of the writer) at the foot.

One could equally say that a phone call is the telephonic equivalent
of a letter; and I suspect you don't announce your full postal address
every time you make a telephone call before saying anything else.

Even if you insist on this analogy, what postal letters must have at
the top is the postal address; so email presents the email address in
the headers.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?


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