Re: Signatures at end of EMail messages
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Signatures at end of EMail messages
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail
> header -----------------------
> > Sender: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
> <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> > 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>
> >
> > 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.)
Can't they also get around that by printing the *screen* and not the entire
email? If using a proportional font, you can get more on the screen and the
page too.
> 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?
Yes, the big picture there. *One* email source with a 12 line sig isn't the
problem, it when it's common practice and you discover if you open the
*compressed* email file on your harddrive, that you could cut the 6Meg file
size in half if you deleted the sigs and advertisements and html code.
And it must add to listserv work to email out those 12 lines x subscriber
number. Not that that one matters here.
Kat
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