[Gllug] Signatures

[Manjush]

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Manjush G. Menon,
Sr Programmer,
Sofker Solutions Pvt Ltd,
St Benedict Road,
Ernakulam North,
Kerala-INDIA. 


7/10/02 4:47:08 PM, David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

>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.
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