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"Sent from my Blackberry/iPhone/etc" signature. Annoying? (Page 2)
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Privacy statements are indeed idiotic, but many times, the sender has no control over them. At my last job, any message that was sent to an outside email was automatically appended with one of those things.
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Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
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Ditto, its CYA for companies as well as people putting there for their own CYA. Personally its lame but since there's nothing I can do, I just live with it.
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I put my name as my sig. Anything else is unnecessary information.
Likewise, if I ask something of you in an e-mail and the only response required is "Yes." then so be it. Good. Be curt. I'm not really interested in anything else, certainly not what device you use to correspond with.
We've got someone who puts a "Disclaimer" inside a <pre> tag with no returns in it. Thunderbird will print it cropped down, but Mail.app shrinks everything down to macroscopic proportions to fit that one long line onto the page.
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Originally Posted by angelmb
Those mostly coming from Windows computers which read something like 'this e-mail is virus free' are indeed welcome.
I listen to the podcast Security Now and always laugh when they talk about this sig and how every virus on the planet could append "this email is virus free" to the emails it sends out.
Talk about a false sense of security, that line is absolutely meaningless.
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Oh, thanks for the heads-up SSharon.
On the opposite side, I have found some e-mails I had sent blocked and not delivered cause I did include attachments with them. The Content Scanner suggested to rename the files to avoid it, but the list of file types being blocked on delivery is incredibly long and most file extensions are new to me.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
That's just ego talking... When I was on active duty, my standard email signature was:That was it. And I did that only because one officer stated (without any standing to do so) that emails "must" have the same signature block elements that written correspondence had. (There is a lengthy Air Force Instruction that details what emails "must" have, and there's nothing about that in there.)
I'd have ticked off some junior officers if I'd even put my academic credentials after my name; two AAS degrees and a BS in Computer Science (Honors) might have had a chilling effect on the young gentlemen's attitudes.
Damn zoomies! Haha! I'm a Squid. Retired, of course. 20 long freakin years. Msgt is E-7 right?
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Originally Posted by Dakar V
If I got that from you, I'd probably send a pic of hard core porn back.
Besides all the ones you send me already?
While we're on the subject, please stop.
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54
please stop.
That's what she said.
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Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
Damn zoomies! Haha! I'm a Squid. Retired, of course. 20 long freakin years. Msgt is E-7 right?
Yep, E-7. I made it in under 15 years, too-pretty fast for the Air Force. And I wound up spending almost 1/3 of my career as an E-7, equivalent to the CPO tier.
What most non-military people don't understand is that in uniform, we tended to wear our CVs on our chests-in our decorations. I don't know how the Navy was, but there was tremendous pressure on me to wear my decs all the time. I think it had something to do with "my deployment record is bigger than yours" or some junk.
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Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
Damn zoomies! Haha! I'm a Squid. Retired, of course. 20 long freakin years. Msgt is E-7 right?
If Glenn’s post weren’t there as context, that post would make absolutely no sense whatsoever to me.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Yep, E-7. I made it in under 15 years, too-pretty fast for the Air Force. And I wound up spending almost 1/3 of my career as an E-7, equivalent to the CPO tier.
What most non-military people don't understand is that in uniform, we tended to wear our CVs on our chests-in our decorations. I don't know how the Navy was, but there was tremendous pressure on me to wear my decs all the time. I think it had something to do with "my deployment record is bigger than yours" or some junk.
Some people in the Navy wore all their ribbons. Sometimes it was 6 or 7 rows high, but quite a few just wore the top senior three ribbons, so they only had one row. I hardly ever wore my uniform that required ribbons, anyway. Putting a seatbelt with ribbons on is a pain in the ass.. Remember that?
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Originally Posted by OisÃn
If Glenn’s post weren’t there as context, that post would make absolutely no sense whatsoever to me.
Well, we're actually gang members and that's our secret code, sort of like the signs the crips throw up with the fingers.
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Originally Posted by OisÃn
If Glenn’s post weren’t there as context, that post would make absolutely no sense whatsoever to me.
Hopefully it means a little now...
Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
Some people in the Navy wore all their ribbons. Sometimes it was 6 or 7 rows high, but quite a few just wore the top senior three ribbons, so they only had one row. I hardly ever wore my uniform that required ribbons, anyway. Putting a seatbelt with ribbons on is a pain in the ass.. Remember that?
We had an "all or none" rule, which meant that Senior NCOs basically had to wear all of 'em. And seatbelts were always a hassle.
Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
Well, we're actually gang members and that's our secret code, sort of like the signs the crips throw up with the fingers.
Word.
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We need a Crip smiley. Or a Latin Kings smiley.
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Originally Posted by Dakar V
That's what she said.
Second-most annoying iPhone app ever: That's What She Said. ...and yes, of course I downloaded it.
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Originally Posted by Dakar V
That's what she said.
I'm not surprised.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
I'm not surprised.
So, is that a friendly jab or are you trying to be a dick?
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Wait - I make a speculative innuendo about your sex life on an internet forum, and you believe it might possibly have been IN JEST!?
I'm insulted.
(In all seriousness, Dakar: You seem a little touchy lately. Sorry if I've been hitting a nerve or something, but I really, really *don't* have it in for you - at all. Flippant, irreverent - but definitely not personal. 'kay? )
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
(In all seriousness, Dakar: You seem a little touchy lately. Sorry if I've been hitting a nerve or something, but I really, really *don't* have it in for you - at all. Flippant, irreverent - but definitely not personal. 'kay? )
That's why I asked.
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Note to self: Dakar has feelings, he might not be a bot after all
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Robots can have emotions, too.
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Originally Posted by Dakar V
Robots can have emotions, too.
Oh, let me test this:
Your mother was a garbage can.
-t
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My BlackBerry's default notification is:
Best regards,
[Laminar]
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Sent from [Laminar]'s Blackberry
I didn't know that at first, so I received a pretty heavy chiding for ending an email with "Best Regards" the first time I emailed my girlfriend.
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I like that it reminds people I have an iPhone...
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