Email Signatures
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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.
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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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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...
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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.
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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. :-\
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
chriselst wrote:
I hate ones that include the email address like the email doesn't know where it's come from.
Strangely enough that's the one thing I really want on emails. It's not rare than I need to share documents/projects online with colleagues and inevitably this is done by email address within the online application. So invariably it ends up with me finding an email the person sent and trying to extract their email address or trying to do the same from the Outlook address book(working in Cambridge means that many people have foreign names either because they are not British or because their parents were called Featherstonhaugh - pronounced Fanshaw). Because of the 'everything is connected' attitude of some software designers it's sometimes blinking difficult to extract something as simple as an email address from a contact. [Edit 'of' changed to 'or']
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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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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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
Interesting...Did your boss knew that Big Willy has some secondary meanings? If did, than it should be really funny...
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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Interesting...Did your boss knew that Big Willy has some secondary meanings? If did, than it should be really funny...
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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Those fine years!!! :thumbsup:
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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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 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.
I love email signatures. Whenever I need to call someone I check my mailbox and their most recent mail probably has their number in it. Way faster than going through the phone book on our devices :D
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