On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:34:03PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Will Fiveash wrote: > > The why is that you are adding needless bloat to most messages you send. > > One person's "needless bloat" is another's digital signature, I guess.
Yep, just like one salesperson's HTML format e-mail with a 150K GIF of the company logo attached sent to an internal mail lists is a reasonable use of bandwidth and storage resources. To be honest, the other day I saw an e-mail to an internal mail list that consisted of two sentences yet the thing was 266K. This was a result of an attached logo image and HTML formatted text. Not what I'd call good S/N ratio. I suppose this has me feeling grumpy about the subject. > > Take for example the message you sent that I'm responding to. Does > > anyone care that it actually came from you and wasn't tampered with? I > > doubt it. > > Mark cares. I care too. Perhaps you'll consider that your opinion on > the appropriate use of signatures is just that. Uhm, I never said I made the rules (whoever I am). 8^) -- Will Fiveash
