On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm seeing more and more posts from various people, on this list and > others, with statements like the following: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:45:35 -0400, David Di Biase wrote: > >> Sent from my iPhone > > Also "Sent from my Blackberry" and similar. > > Without wishing to be rude to David, who I'm sure is a nice guy and not > at all the pretentious git that such a line makes him appear, are people > adding this comment to the bottom of their posts, or is it something that > their device automatically appends to the post?
It's on by default for the iPhone/iTouch but there's a setting to change the signature (including to nothing). Don't know about the Blackberry. > > If people are adding it themselves, that's nice, I'm sure you're really > excited about your new toy, but the rest of us don't care a monkey's > toss. And if the device is automatically appending it, I think that's > pretty damn rude and a good reason to avoid buying the obnoxious machines. Eh, that's a bit extreme; though I admit it can sometimes be annoying (but not very much). Regards, Chris Sent using a Computer, the Internet, Gmail, Firefox, unix, glibc, ... ;P > > > > -- > Steven > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
