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Ah, let's not get started about "Why email signatures has won" :)

• layer8 1y ago
  Not sure what you mean, email signatures were standard well before Outlook. What changed is that the convention of beginning them with a line consisting of “-- ” wasn’t adopted by Outlook & friends, so automatic detection/hiding/non-quoting suffers.
  • rixed 1y ago
    I mean that we already have SMTP headers for metadata. Such as in-reply-to (no need to quote the whole mail at the bottom of yours) and obviously the sender (no need for an explicit signature), and you could use x-face if you needed something fancier or, if your company really really needs to remind everyone how social they are at every message, you could have added an x-coprorate-blurb custom header, etc. Whatever, emails these days are nothing more than an archaic last resort password reset protocol.