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Show HN: Email Signature Generator
- hlidotbe 11y agoHosting images on dropbox might be an issue. Maybe you should use data url so the signature is "self-hosted".
- Fastidious 11y agoI really dislike this type of things, I prefer plain text on email, HTML adds bloat to an otherwise small email. The site, and end result, though, looks nice! If your service becomes known at work (a university) I will have to block it; my users (faculty, that is) will swarm it like bees to a hive. :-)
- gm 11y agoOMG, you got the username right. Talk about getting a stomachache from stuff other people eat. But, whatever :-)
- DanBC 11y agoSignatures attract attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.fan.warlord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.fan.warlord > alt.fan.warlord is a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to the dissection and flaming of signature files (sigs) used in other Usenet groups. The newsgroup was best-known during the early and mid-1990s, and can no longer be considered active. In its time, it was a notable "underground" Internet phenomenon. > For the most part, alt.fan.warlord targeted sigs that violated a principle of Usenet netiquette known as the McQuary limit — i.e., the rule that a sig should be less than 80 columns wide (preferably 72 or less), and no longer than four lines. This limit kept Usenet messages reasonably short, conserving bandwidth, and ensured that an 80-column terminal — the most common display type — could display the sig properly without text wrapping to the following lines. The McQuary limit, sometimes referred to as the "McQ limit" and often misspelled "McQuarry," was named after George F. McQuary, a frequent contributor to alt.fan.warlord.
- feld 11y agoEmail should be plaintext You should add a way to generate a plaintext signature that looks nice
- rk0567 11y agoThanks for suggestion. Added to TODO.
- feld 11y agoCool, a plaintext sig generator would be very welcome
- Fastidious 11y ago-- The Feld HackerNews Extraordinaire the_feld@feldfields.org "Growing Turnips, one at a time!" There, all set! :-)
- DanBC 11y agoit's dash dash space! Outlook Express had a bug for years where it would correctly add the signature seperator, but then strip whitespace and strip the trailing space. Usenet used to hate it.
- Fastidious 11y agoI added the space, I believe HN trimmed it.
- feld 11y agoI might use this, because, internet. :-)
- meeper16 11y agoWhat if Richard Stallman wants to contact me?