Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!spt From: spt@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Are signature lines distracting? Message-ID: <1990Jan11.040733.405@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 11 Jan 90 04:07:33 GMT References: <659@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <15068@bfmny0.UU.NET> <662@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 27 In article tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: > >I agree very much with this sentiment. It is irritating to get to the >end of a posting and see as part of the automatically added .signature: >.... Surely what someone adds to their message is up to them? If someone wished to protect themselves from the wrath of their employer (or protect their employer..) they should add a disclaimer, and surely the way and means they do that is up to them. Otherwise we may as well just say "Standard Disclaimer" at the end of our messages, meaning something like: "The thoughts expressed in this document are my own and are not an indication of the feelings of my employer, employees, boss, corperation, state, country, ethnic/sociological/religous/sexual/peer group, although some of them may share all or some of my views. Furthermore, these opinions are backed by some of the best education that the schools {xxx, xxx, xxx} could provide me in the {nn} years it took to educate me to my current mental state." Whatever, I quite like some of the signatures that come across. -- ^^__/@@@@@\ +------------------------------------------------------------+ @OO@_@@@@@@@B- |Sheep rights and liberty!! Simon Travaglia, Waikato Uni, NZ| \/ \@@@@@/ |spt@truth.waikato.ac.nz- 130.217.64.3 +---------------------+ baa! || || |spt@grace.waikato.ac.nz- 130.217.64.32|Take it easy in there|