[Gllug] Signatures

[Chris Ball]

>>>>> "Tim" == t clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> writes:

    Tim> And as we all know, letters are typed on 'letterheads' with a
    Tim> name/address and telephone number at the top and a signature
    Tim> (ie simple name of the writer) at the foot.

    Tim> So, our emails are constructed in the same format !

No.

Letters have headers.  They contain information about who is sending an
letter, who it's going to, what it's regarding and when it's being sent.

E-mails have headers.  They do the same.  You seem to want to duplicate
the header information of an e-mail inside the body - which is annoying
and redundant, and will make people less willing to listen to your
points after they've waded through the computer-generated junk.

    Tim> Besides which, if you need the 'sig' to include some sort of
    Tim> disclaimer ([..]) then it should be at the top so the recipient
    Tim> reads it BEFORE the text of the messages.

If e-mail disclaimers were useful, this might be true.  They aren't,
though, and if you put your rambling unenforcable unagreed contract at
the _bottom_ of a mail, we can recognise it as such after reading the
content and skip to the next message with a minimum of time loss.

- Chris.
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