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

[Mike Easter]

Frank Ellermann wrote:
> 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 ?

Don't you want whatever it is to be a 'signing off' -- like a
'signature'.  A signature on a handwritten note sez, "I'm the one who
wrote this, and now I'm thru' writing here and so I'm leaving -- signed
Frank.

But, we don't want signed Frank as a part of our reply to Frank in a
news message.  That's why sig delimitors were created, so that signed
Frank is automatically removed when we reply.  If you write bye Frank as
a part of the last line of your post, it would have to be manually
removed, or left in there, which doesn't make any sense to me.

>> Is the following better?

where Jeff is asking Frank to compare this:

Best Regards,  Jeff G.
I have been a SpamCop User/Member/Customer since 1999 and am a
Moderator of the new web-based forums (now the primary method for
getting help, http://forum.spamcop.net).  Please contact me via Forum
only.   I do not provide Official SpamCop.Net Customer Support - please
see "How To Get Official SpamCop.Net Customer Support" at
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5517 for that.

with this:

Thanks and Best Regards,  Jeff G.
Please see my full sig at
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showuser=2041

> Yes for the size and your intention to display a link to the
> forum.

And I agree with Frank that Jeff's lengthy sig was, well, excessive.

Some even have 'rules' for sigs that they can't exceed 4 lines and such.
I would rather see no more than 2, myself.

Personally I don't think that sigs need to have 'unnecessary' flourishes
in them like thanks and best regards, but then that may be the nature of
my personality, so that is just the opinion of one opinionated person.

In fact, I think the sig should be 'efficient' if it is trying to carry
a message about something and that it not only doesn't need thanks or
best regards, it doesn't even need 'please'

>                      $TBD, Frank

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

I think whatever you determine should go below a sig delimitor, not
above it.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin