OpenEuphoria

Re: Signatures at end of EMail messages

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Apr 14, 2000
• 597 views

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> Sender:       Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
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> Poster:       Mike Hurley <mike_hurley_2 at YAHOO.COM>
> Subject:      Signatures at end of EMail messages
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> I want to know what's so bad about the fancy-looking
> signatures that spell out names or look cool at the
> ends of EMails.
    <SNIP>
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> Mike Hurley

**Some fixed width Fonts listed at bottom of message.

1.  They can't read it, so they don't like it. (candor)
    Most people read their Email in a proportional font.
    This makes the fancy spelled signatures look like a
    pile of garbage characters.
    (As Kat so elegantly pointed out in a previous post)

2.  Printing a hard copy. (A somewhat valid point.)
    Some people can't pull themselves from ink and paper
    and feel they must print these messages.  Again,
    many times it is printed in a proportional font and
    on top of that.  It can make a (1) one page message
    (2) two pages. (Just because of the fancy signature.)

3.  Many people simply complain that it is a waste of
    bandwidth and hard drive space.
      Bandwidth: They wouldn't notice the hundredth of the
        second difference.  The ISP connect time took
        longer.
      Hard drive space: Come on, The chance of the
        signature actually making a difference in
        allocated drive space is very low.
        All files are stored in clusters.  These
        clusters start at a minimum size of 512 bytes
        (floppy disks), and move up to and beyond 32,768
        bytes (32K)(hard drives).  Many messages fall well
        within this 16K-32K.  Some common clusters sizes
        are 4K, 8K, 16K, and 32K.  Even Pete's 12 line
        signature falls under 1K.

Did I miss anything?

Fixed width fonts:
    Most anything that reads fixed or terminal.
Terminal screens rely on fixed width fonts for proper
display.

* means and variations such as Courier New

COMMON: Courier *, Fixedsys, Lucinda Console *,
    Lucinda Sans Unicode *.


OTHERS:  (no telling where I got some of these)

Arabic Transparent, Gulimche, MingLiU *,
Miriam Fixed, MS Gothic, MS Hei, MS LineDraw, MS Song,
OCR A Extended, Rod, Traditional Arabic.


        Lucius L. Hilley III
        lhilley at cdc.net
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