On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:10:16AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 06:03:12PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Tuesday 21 March 2017 17:15:32 Catherine Gramze wrote: > >>Sent from my iPad > > > >Note it is sent from an iPad! Open Source all the way!!!!! > > > >Incidentally, why did we need to know that? > > These sorts of signatures are usually used on mobile devices for a number of > reasons: > > - Typing on a mobile tends to be less comfortable, or at least slower, than > typing on a full-size keyboard. This lends to shorter, less detailed > replies. The signature acts as a warning that "I'm not being brusque, I just > don't have the capacity to state my case more loquaciously." > > - Many mobile clients seem to restrict what you can put in a signature. You > generally can't use formatting (as company branding might require), you > often can't even use multiple lines. And if you want to read your signature > from a pipe (so as to include a witty "fortune")? Good luck!
IOW, it's an excuse for the following hard to read badly formatted text. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
