How do you "sign off" in your business emails?

Maximilien

For business communication, just K.I.S.S. and polite. I just finish all my external business emails with :

Thank you,
Maximilien Lincourt.

For internal business emails:

Thanks,
Max.

I'd rather be phishing!

Amarnath S

Replying to a non-coder: Thanks and Regards Replying to a coder: Byte and Regards

Jalapeno Bob

Depending upon the exact nature of the email, I use one of two. For most emails I send from work, I use the one "recommended" :) by my employer:

Quote:

This email and any files transmitted with it are the property of <name of my employer, a health care facility>, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this email is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipients and have received the message in error, please notify the sender at (XXX) XXX-XXXX and delete this message from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and could be a violation of State and/or Federal law.

For emails I send to my peers, I use the "Programmer's Serenity Prayer" by Rex Hammock, which appears at the bottom of this reply.

__________________ Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now. © 2009, Rex Hammock

Nish Nishant

This works better : - see ya, don't wanna be ya!

Regards, Nish

Website: www.voidnish.com Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com

ZurdoDev

I see no reason to have one. I just simply finish with my signature.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Lost User

Could always go for the plain old: "Please do not reply to this email; this address is not monitored." :laugh:

The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!

Lost User

Change the fucking font to white and out something about hating gay people in their signature

Lost User

:laugh:

FukkPhag1 wrote:

something about hating gay people in their signature

Is that what 'Fukkphag' means

RaviBee

When making a request, I sign off with:

Thanks,

--Ravi

Otherwise, it's just:

--Ravi

/ravi

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Lost User

I say "Thank you". Rarely is it not appropriate. The only time I change it is when the email is a thank you email because then it looks silly. Dear Dude, Thank you for all your help. We really appreciated it. Blaha blah blah. Thank you again for all your help. Thank you, <--- This now looks wierd because of the last "Thank you". Usually just remove that last thank you and its fine. Me I use signatures and it is obvious it is a templated sig, but I do not see why that is an issue. The message is not defined by the closing. Granted, a silly closing will destroy the message, but just keep it simple and you meet all formality settings. (i.e. use "Thank you,")

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.

Sander Rossel

Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Sander Rossel The "Met vriendelijke groet" is "kind regards" in Dutch, but as I regularly have contact with English customers I've added the English translation :) We once had a customer who had pretty much the same tag line, but in multiple languages, including Arab. It crashed our email server as we had some custom application running that processed all emails and apparently didn't handle Arab very well :laugh:

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

jgakenhe

Oh, I didn't know you worked in my department!

jgakenhe

formal: Thanks, with my job title and contact information semi formal: Thanks, with my contact information semi or formal additional: Thanks, Joe first non-formal and you know me: Joe additional non-formal and you know me: nothing

9082365

Byte me!

I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!

Mark_Wallace

What, you don't speak Klingon? Pfft!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Ron Anders

Later dude, :Ron

chriselst

I changed the ring tone of a colleague's phone to Blink 182's Family Reunion then gave him a call when he was in a meeting with lots of people more senior than him.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

realJSOP

I usually end with: "...and if I ever hear from you again, I'm going to hunt you down and personally punch you in the throat." I don't get a lot of emails...

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Lost User

It's not the threat of a punch that discourages emails to you. It's your signature here at CP! :laugh:

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

GenJerDan

I had my ringtone for an acquaintance set as Khia's "My Neck, My Back". Briefly, anyway. A phone's ringtone is remarkably loud in a quiet cubicle farm. Well, I didn't expect her to call in the middle of the day. Sheesh.

We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.