Email Signatures
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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.
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:laugh: I always thought it was your real name. :-O
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Regards, Sander
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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
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Phone numbers are acceptable. Although you have to be careful. A few years ago I was downloading a trial of some software, they required a phone number so I clicked on an email from a colleague and use the phone number. Didn't realise it was her direct number, I didn't realise anyone in the company had a direct number, just assumed it would be the switchboard number. She spent weeks fielding sales calls for me. Which was probably better for me than them having the switchboard number, as they would have just patched the calls straight through.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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 people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
Someone once asked me, why don't I just put my name in my sig-line, and that is exactly the reason why. Marc
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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'm there with you brother. I've sent replies with the other person's signature deleted. I've sent my own obnoxious signature in caps and large fonts and nothing works. I hate getting a chain of emails all with signatures, especially from a coworker 5 feet away. I hate the disclaimer at the bottom that says to delete if you are not the intended recipient. I hate when they have to put their credentials on there. Jane Doe, PMP or John Doe, CSM The place I work at, nearly everyone uses them and they think it's professional. My bosses is near 20 lines, with a logo with it and now other people are starting to do it. I'm at the point that I stop talking to people or sending the emails because I hate signatures so much.
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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.
If I recall correctly he's driving a Peugeot or Vauxhall or similar. No lack of confidence there.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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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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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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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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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
I could not agree more with the second part. AND I also hate emails address in emails.
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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 people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it
I don't understand this one : Do you type your name everytime because you do not want to include it in your standard sig ??
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chriselst wrote:
I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it
I don't understand this one : Do you type your name everytime because you do not want to include it in your standard sig ??
Every time I want to include it, yes, it is 5 characters, doesn't take me long. Having your name in your sig only is like using a name stamp to sign birthday cards. It is impersonal, and IMHO more insulting than not signing at all.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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If I recall correctly he's driving a Peugeot or Vauxhall or similar. No lack of confidence there.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
It was an Opel but we have a Renault as the family car. I also have a vintage sports car for playing.
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