in reply to poll ideas quest 2015

The bottom line (or section) of email should be:

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Re^2: poll ideas quest 2015
by Tux (Canon) on Apr 27, 2015 at 17:22 UTC

    The bottom section of an e-mail should not be

    • The full conversation including signatures, company logo's and useless disclaimers both in plain text and html (with comic sans font)
    • A 70 line disclaimer in 4 languages
    • An image that contains unclickable links with instructions of how to report abuse
    • more lines than relevant to the discussion
    • a rant about the subject
    • all of the above

    IMHO no e-mail should be allowed in html


    Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

      more lines than relevant to the discussion

      Being threading never really caught on in email clients, having the previous emails there for a while is important. At the office, if not for the history, i would have no idea what half the conversation are talking about. Ridiculous as it may seem, the logos and fonts actually help me follow history more easily. It's big, it's gaudy, but it's also an excellent visual cue.

      FWIW, gmail has threading with a decent implementation. As a nice touch, the earlier conversation is collapsed, and forwarding entire conversation becomes really easy.

      --

      Added disclaimer. :)

Re^2: poll ideas quest 2015
by shmem (Chancellor) on Oct 26, 2015 at 13:41 UTC

    The bottom line (or section) of email should be:

    • ...
    • a JAPH

    of course ;)

    perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2015
by Pope-O-Matik (Pilgrim) on Jun 24, 2015 at 22:34 UTC

    How about a simple poll: Do you put your name at the bottom of emails you send?

    • Yes
    • No
    • It depends