A little more off-topic: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:57 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2014-07-16 00:53, Rick Johnson wrote: >> Some folks even have software that "blabs" about how great a job it >> is doing […], so if you see […] some pretentious line >> about "this was sent from my i-phone" -- send that crap to the >> bitbucket! >> > "This was sent from my iPhone" == "I have an iPhone!"
I personally parse those lines as “sent from my iPhone, which has an on-screen touch keyboard, and it’s harder to type on it”. > Also annoying is some footnote that says that the email contains > confidential information and that if you're not the intended recipient > you should delete it, etc. > > That's somewhat pointless if it's being sent to a public forum! Corporate lawyers for the win! 99.9% of people who send e-mail with this line are forced to do so by their corporation’s legal department. Also, the correct solution for all those is getting a sane client that can hide quotes and signatures. Like Gmail (which defaults to top-posting, but fixing this is one click per message away*). And if someone brings the “people need to download it anyway” argument: it’s 2014, people: hard-drives are large nowadays (or you can just use IMAP) and if you’re paying $100 per kilobyte, you’re doing it wrong and should not be online in the first place. * trickier on mobile, though. -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
