[SpamCop-List] Signatures in SC news and forum (was: Spamcop not reporting weblinks in spam)

[Frank Ellermann]

Jeff G. wrote:

> And yours looks like you are saying "Bye" to yourself.

That's no "signature" (= the lines after a line "-- "), it's a
bad case of DEnglish on my side.  I know that "Cheers, Frank"
is possible, and for formal mails I try "Regards, F.Ellermann".

What's good for news and mailing lists if I don't want to use
"Cheers", is "Greets" better ?

 [signature]
> Is the following better?

Yes for the size and your intention to display a link to the
forum.  Maybe say "for personal replies and more about me see"
(or something in this direction) instead of "see my full sig":

The case where I first stumbled over your old signature wasn't
here but on your "recent SC glitches" forum page - a bunch of
short entries (two or three lines) with the timetamps of some
recent problems followed by the old long signature, resulting
in a forum page, where most of it content were copies of your
signature.

That's apparently a technical problem with the forum software:

There are already links to some personal info about the author
of each entry, but ?showuser=2041 doesn't work for guests.

In other words, the link in your new sig doesn't work for me
(= no forum member, only an occasional reader).  Probably for
privacy reasons, maybe you need some kind of "public profile"
in addition to the member-only-info-pages.

Using signatures within forum articles because guests (among
them GoogleBot, me, spammers, who knows) can't use ?showuser=
is an odd kludge, it litters the forum.

                     $TBD, Frank
-- 
Suggestions for $TBD better than "bye" or "cheeers" welcome.