Talk:Signature block

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Contents 1 Don't understand 2 NPOV? 3 First Company Law Amendment Directive as of January 2007 4 Stop with the old school already... move on. 5 Cleanup

[edit] Don't understand

" Images are often allowed as well, including dynamically updates images, such as ones generated by P2P programs."

What does this mean? --Maru (talk) Contribs 05:45, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't know about the P2P part, but some sites offer signature images that update on a regular basis (eg- gametrack.org) VetteDude 20:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm sure whoever wrote that meant PHP 68.237.217.6 16:32, 27 May 2007 (UTC) A Passing Visitor

I think he was referring to those signatures that show your eMule statistics, for example.

[edit] NPOV?

I'll weigh in on the dynamic images: I don't know about P2P, but some forums I'm in have users who have stats from webservers as their avatar, and it updates automatically (i.e. number of users, etc - see an example, logo only) But I was originally wondering about the Forums section. It seems a little POV to me ("Those stupid teenagers...") Particularly describing teens as "posting mostly one-liner replies followed by really enormous signature blocks including blinking and scrolling text in odd fonts, and dozens of pictures of their favorite celebrities." and the part about "elaborately-constructed HTML and CSS monstrosities." Especially the former seems exaggerated, or worst-case-scenario. I have seen some bad ones, but few that are that bad. --The Human Spellchecker 21:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

One forum I visit has some users with HTML signatures approaching 6 kB plus, so "elaborately-constructed HTML and CSS monstrosities" seemed applicable when I added it. :) æle ✆ 22:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First Company Law Amendment Directive as of January 2007

The change in UK company law from the beginning of 2007 will significantly tighten up corporate use of email signatures (and make them rather long in the process). The Register states:

Companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their websites and in their email footers before 1 January 2007 or they will breach the Companies Act and risk a fine. Every company should list its company registration number, place of registration, and registered office address on its website as a result of an update to the legislation of 1985. The information, which must be in legible characters, should also appear on order forms and in emails. Such information is already required on "business letters" but the duty is being extended to websites, order forms and electronic documents.

-- Ashley VH 14:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stop with the old school already... move on.

Many can argue as a statement of fact- the vast majority of the world does not follow the guidelines described in this article.

Just about the only ones following these guidelines are from the "good ole usenet/bbs days". (or those with an email client that forces it... Thunderbird for instance.) While an argument can be made by the purists, the fact remains that the effectiveness of signature breaks has been greatly diminished. As time goes on, people are more often using html signatures. The "--" is visually ineffective as a separator. Most popular email programs do not suggest that as a separator. It's naive to think that the world will voluntarily change to this.

I know... blasphemy to some of you old school cats. Give up already! Time is *not* on your side.

--72.190.15.191 05:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

The "--" is visually ineffective as a separator.

It may look like "--" but it's really "-- " (dash dash space newline), and email programs that understand and properly utilize it aid the user by automatically not including the signature in the quoted section of replies. Smart, nice and little to do with visual separation.

Darkphader 21:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Can we clean this up? I did some but it needs more. Most of the junk on here is not cited, and its simply what various people think signatures should be, or what they are used to on a particular forum or community they post on. The usenet/email section is woefully undercited as well.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 19:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)