Email Signatures
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chriselst wrote:
I hate ones that have a fax number like it's the 1990s.
Don't know about other countries, in Germany a fax has the legal status of a letter, an email has not. So I let my customers send me faxes(?) as purchase orders.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
Sascha Lefèvre wrote:
So I let my customers send me faxes
I cannot remember the last time I saw a fax machine (yes, yes, I know you can fax from a computer). I had a job, many years ago, where we had a central server that faxed a summary of stuff each morning to around a hundred customers around the country. People liked the faxes because they could walk in, pick up the fax, and read the summary whilst making the coffee, generally getting ready for the day ahead. We wanted to save money on all the faxing. All these customers had their own server, we wanted to transfer the data and let them print if the wanted or view on screen. They liked the faxes. So I transferred the data to the local server, and then made it fax the fax machine that it was often sat next to. Moved the cost of the faxes from us to the customers.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote:
I hate ones that have a fax number like it's the 1990s.
Don't know about other countries, in Germany a fax has the legal status of a letter, an email has not. So I let my customers send me faxes(?) as purchase orders.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
Never heard of digitally signed documents? We have a special server for our customers that enables to upload documents - or fill one online - and sign it digitally...It has legal status of letter...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I hate email signatures. I hate huge ones that contain every conceivable piece of contact information they can think of. I particularly hate the above on emails from people in the same bloody office. I hate ones that include the email address like the email doesn't know where it's come from. I hate ones that have a fax number like it's the 1990s. I hate ones with images, especially if the image makes the email client think there is an attachment. I hate ones in Comic Sans, you're not fun and wacky, you're a twat. I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it. If you cannot be bothered signing off with you name then you're getting nothing back from me either. I'm in a grumpy mood today.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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RyanDev wrote:
Because you aren't sure who it is from?
It's respect innit. Love from Chris x
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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U. G. Leander wrote:
Because Nagy moves near you
I don't know how to pronounce that name but it looks like Naggy to me, something wives are famous for doing to their husbands, so you could be right. :-\
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I've always pronounced it Nagy too, in my head, I don't read this stuff out loud. It is supposed to be pronounced to rhyme with lodge I think. Nagy Vilmos is a joke in Hungarian, it means something along the lines of Big Willy.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Never heard of digitally signed documents? We have a special server for our customers that enables to upload documents - or fill one online - and sign it digitally...It has legal status of letter...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Most of my customers would be challenged to send me a signed document on their own and I CBA to set up such a server :laugh:
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I hate email signatures. I hate huge ones that contain every conceivable piece of contact information they can think of. I particularly hate the above on emails from people in the same bloody office. I hate ones that include the email address like the email doesn't know where it's come from. I hate ones that have a fax number like it's the 1990s. I hate ones with images, especially if the image makes the email client think there is an attachment. I hate ones in Comic Sans, you're not fun and wacky, you're a twat. I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it. If you cannot be bothered signing off with you name then you're getting nothing back from me either. I'm in a grumpy mood today.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Agree with you on everything apart from
chriselst wrote:
I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
You know who it's from before you open the e-mail so why do they have to sign off? Are you going to forget by the time you get to the end? I'm a team-lead of a team that consists of members in 3 differnt Countries and deals with departments in another 2, so I receive/reply to around 100-150 e-mails a day so it would bug the hell out of me to do this (that's what the sig is for). A bug-bear of mine is if I'm in an e-mail chain with 1 other person and they insist on starting each individual message with "Hi Scott". E-mail chains between two people should follow this format. Hi Scott Hi Neil and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
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Most of my customers would be challenged to send me a signed document on their own and I CBA to set up such a server :laugh:
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
Actually we were happy to set up such server and get rid of the fax machine - our customers had serious problem to decide when and what to send on fax so we had a huge warehouse for paper and toner only...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Agree with you on everything apart from
chriselst wrote:
I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
You know who it's from before you open the e-mail so why do they have to sign off? Are you going to forget by the time you get to the end? I'm a team-lead of a team that consists of members in 3 differnt Countries and deals with departments in another 2, so I receive/reply to around 100-150 e-mails a day so it would bug the hell out of me to do this (that's what the sig is for). A bug-bear of mine is if I'm in an e-mail chain with 1 other person and they insist on starting each individual message with "Hi Scott". E-mail chains between two people should follow this format. Hi Scott Hi Neil and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
PompeyThree wrote:
and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
Agree entirely there, establish the formalities in the first exchange and then they are not needed from then on. I just think the formalities should contain the senders name at the bottom that first time too. Even worse when they bother typing Regards or some such and then let the sig pick up the rest. There is no regard there.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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U. G. Leander wrote:
Because Nagy moves near you
I don't know how to pronounce that name but it looks like Naggy to me, something wives are famous for doing to their husbands, so you could be right. :-\
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
To ruin everything, it *should* be pronounced "nodge" to rhyme with dodge. Oh and in Vilmos the 's' is an 'sh' sound.
veni bibi saltavi
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I've always pronounced it Nagy too, in my head, I don't read this stuff out loud. It is supposed to be pronounced to rhyme with lodge I think. Nagy Vilmos is a joke in Hungarian, it means something along the lines of Big Willy.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
I grew up in Hungary and never heard 'Nagy Vilmos' as a joke... I do not know why our Nagy choose the name (maybe a translation of Big Willy?), but if you look up that name you will find someone very interesting...(Wikipedia)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I've always pronounced it Nagy too, in my head, I don't read this stuff out loud. It is supposed to be pronounced to rhyme with lodge I think. Nagy Vilmos is a joke in Hungarian, it means something along the lines of Big Willy.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Correct the lad!
veni bibi saltavi
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They're really annoying -- Sent from Chris's Smart Fridge
veni bibi saltavi
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U. G. Leander wrote:
Because Nagy moves near you
I don't know how to pronounce that name but it looks like Naggy to me, something wives are famous for doing to their husbands, so you could be right. :-\
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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To ruin everything, it *should* be pronounced "nodge" to rhyme with dodge. Oh and in Vilmos the 's' is an 'sh' sound.
veni bibi saltavi
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Agree with you on everything apart from
chriselst wrote:
I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
You know who it's from before you open the e-mail so why do they have to sign off? Are you going to forget by the time you get to the end? I'm a team-lead of a team that consists of members in 3 differnt Countries and deals with departments in another 2, so I receive/reply to around 100-150 e-mails a day so it would bug the hell out of me to do this (that's what the sig is for). A bug-bear of mine is if I'm in an e-mail chain with 1 other person and they insist on starting each individual message with "Hi Scott". E-mail chains between two people should follow this format. Hi Scott Hi Neil and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
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:laugh: I always thought it was your real name. :-O
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
It's my 'real' online name :laugh:
veni bibi saltavi
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I grew up in Hungary and never heard 'Nagy Vilmos' as a joke... I do not know why our Nagy choose the name (maybe a translation of Big Willy?), but if you look up that name you will find someone very interesting...(Wikipedia)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Maybe not, but it was funny at the time. When I moved to Hungary, my boss called me Willy or Big Willy; as my names William. I needed an email and so signed up for a free account with the name Nagy Vilmos. I've used it ever since; 18 years or so.
veni bibi saltavi
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:laugh: I always thought it was your real name. :-O
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Vilmos IS his real name...He probably added Nagy (which means big) because of certain problems with his self confidence...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
