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I'm guilty of this... This the signature I'm using. Thanks, --- Firstname Lastname My enterprisey title. Name of the Company I Work For.

I'm guilty of this... This the signature I'm using. Thanks, --- Firstname Lastname My enterprisey title. Name of the Company I Work For. 555 Some Rd. | City and, ST ZZZIP-CODE Work Phone: 555-555-5555 Cell Phone: 555-555-5555 Email: flastname@company.com I wish I could reduce the length of my signature but at least it's on the small side compared to the majority of the non-spam emails I run across in the customer support mailing list.

IgorPartola 16y ago
My former employer has in their guidelines that, in addition to the 10 or so line signature, we needed to attach the department's graphical logo to every e-mail... Can this be considered the signature whale?
- joezydeco 16y ago
  Half of my company has the "logo in signature" thing and it drives me nuts to no end. Now EVERY email has an attachment to it. I can't tell which emails have important files and which ones are just 200 copies of the company logo in a long thread.
  - eru 16y ago
    You can probably script your email client (or similar) to filter those logos.
    - joezydeco 16y ago
      I'm on gApps and use the web interface a lot. I'll have to look through that stuff. Thanks. {edit} Nothing there. Great. You know what, signature and signature processing in gMail sucks. Why can't the web interface know I'm mailing someone in the same organization and NOT include the signature? Why can't it skip the legal block that my company requires if it's already in the email thread? Let's put the self-driving priuses on hold for a while and get some real functionality in there, Google!
      - dctoedt 16y ago
        AutoHotKey hack for GMail and Google Apps sigs: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic31346.html http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic31346.html
- jamesteow 16y ago
  I do think it's a bit ridiculous to have a graphical logo in the signature. It's an unnecessary exercise in promoting the brand than anything else.
tallanvor 16y ago
Mine looks like this: Name | Company | Group | Title | desk phone | mobile | group web site. Don't ask me why the Title comes after the company and group, but it was somebody's bright idea. At least it's only 1 line, maybe 2 if it gets wrapped for some reason. Of course, they're trying to add a crapload more lines, but I've been resisting it, and will until it's "do it or be fired".
- adw 16y ago
  I was on Usenet enough early enough to get the four-lines religion, and that's enough to get six different ways to contact me in. (I've elided bits here, not because it's any type of secret - I'm not exactly hard to find - but rather because you know some robot's going to crawl this sooner or later. Seriously: skype spam?!) http://timetric.com/ tel: +44 7*** 9***** Skype: andrew.*********** twitter: @covert 2nd Floor, White Bear Yard, 144a Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1R 5DF personal: andrew@withpretext.*** http://withpretext.com/
jasonlotito 16y ago
Mine First Last - Company Name - Department I'm in Charge Of ICQ: ######### \ Office: ###-###-#### x### \ Cell: ###-###-#### 2 simple lines with information I usually look for in other people's signatures. > I wish I could reduce the length of my signature Company mandated?
- gaius 16y ago
  Heh, one time the company sent round a template signature that we all had to use, and everyone cut and pasted it without reading. So we all had the job title Top Brand Chief.
Natsu 16y ago
Why put your email address in the .sig for your email? Don't they already have that, given that they got mail from you? Or is it meant for the case when someone forwards it 8 times and your email is snipped or abbreviated out? I usually sign with one or two lines, maximum. Sometimes I don't sign it at all. And it's not a .sig, I type it in every time and I snip out all the rubbish from anything I'm replying to or forwarding (which often includes overly long sigs).
- epochwolf 16y ago
  We don't always send from our own email accounts.

IgorPartola 16y ago

My former employer has in their guidelines that, in addition to the 10 or so line signature, we needed to attach the department's graphical logo to every e-mail... Can this be considered the signature whale?

joezydeco 16y ago
Half of my company has the "logo in signature" thing and it drives me nuts to no end. Now EVERY email has an attachment to it. I can't tell which emails have important files and which ones are just 200 copies of the company logo in a long thread.
- eru 16y ago
  You can probably script your email client (or similar) to filter those logos.
  - joezydeco 16y ago
    I'm on gApps and use the web interface a lot. I'll have to look through that stuff. Thanks. {edit} Nothing there. Great. You know what, signature and signature processing in gMail sucks. Why can't the web interface know I'm mailing someone in the same organization and NOT include the signature? Why can't it skip the legal block that my company requires if it's already in the email thread? Let's put the self-driving priuses on hold for a while and get some real functionality in there, Google!
    - dctoedt 16y ago
      AutoHotKey hack for GMail and Google Apps sigs: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic31346.html http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic31346.html
jamesteow 16y ago
I do think it's a bit ridiculous to have a graphical logo in the signature. It's an unnecessary exercise in promoting the brand than anything else.

tallanvor 16y ago

Mine looks like this: Name | Company | Group | Title | desk phone | mobile | group web site. Don't ask me why the Title comes after the company and group, but it was somebody's bright idea. At least it's only 1 line, maybe 2 if it gets wrapped for some reason. Of course, they're trying to add a crapload more lines, but I've been resisting it, and will until it's "do it or be fired".

adw 16y ago
I was on Usenet enough early enough to get the four-lines religion, and that's enough to get six different ways to contact me in. (I've elided bits here, not because it's any type of secret - I'm not exactly hard to find - but rather because you know some robot's going to crawl this sooner or later. Seriously: skype spam?!) http://timetric.com/ tel: +44 7*** 9***** Skype: andrew.*********** twitter: @covert 2nd Floor, White Bear Yard, 144a Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1R 5DF personal: andrew@withpretext.*** http://withpretext.com/

jasonlotito 16y ago

Mine First Last - Company Name - Department I'm in Charge Of ICQ: ######### \ Office: ###-###-#### x### \ Cell: ###-###-#### 2 simple lines with information I usually look for in other people's signatures. > I wish I could reduce the length of my signature Company mandated?

gaius 16y ago
Heh, one time the company sent round a template signature that we all had to use, and everyone cut and pasted it without reading. So we all had the job title Top Brand Chief.

Natsu 16y ago

Why put your email address in the .sig for your email? Don't they already have that, given that they got mail from you? Or is it meant for the case when someone forwards it 8 times and your email is snipped or abbreviated out? I usually sign with one or two lines, maximum. Sometimes I don't sign it at all. And it's not a .sig, I type it in every time and I snip out all the rubbish from anything I'm replying to or forwarding (which often includes overly long sigs).

epochwolf 16y ago
We don't always send from our own email accounts.