{"id":20943,"date":"2008-09-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/09\/09\/if-you-use-an-absurd-signature-i-might-end-up-sending-it-back-to-you\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T10:00:00","slug":"if-you-use-an-absurd-signature-i-might-end-up-sending-it-back-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080909-00\/?p=20943","title":{"rendered":"If you use an absurd signature, I might end up sending it back to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Despite my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/06\/06\/3106089.aspx\"> previous rant<\/a>, absurdly elaborate email signatures are still common at Microsoft, and I&#8217;m not just talking about the ones that contain information that may be required by department policy. I&#8217;m talking about signatures that use bright colors, large fonts, maybe a bitmap or two, sometimes even a photo of the sender! I will sometimes mention in my reply, &#8220;Please consider making your signature less eye-catching. It distracts from the text of your message.&#8221; But other times, I just incorporate it in to the reply more directly: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> <b>From<\/b>: John Doe<br> <\/p>\n<p> Blah blah blah question blah blah blah. <\/p>\n<p> <font size=\"+2\" color=\"#CF4040\"><b>John Doe<\/b><\/font><br> <font size=\"+1\" color=\"#0000C0\"><b>Technical Liaison<\/b><\/font><br> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/library\/media\/1033\/windows\/images\/products\/earlyversions\/sectionheader_windows2000.gif\"><br> <font color=\"#0000C0\"><b>telephone: 425-555-1212<\/b><\/font><br> <font color=\"#0000C0\"><b>mobile: [available upon request]<\/b><\/font><br> <font color=\"#0000C0\">Make sure to visit my blog! http:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/font><br> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> My reply might go like this: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> <b>To<\/b>: John Doe<br> <\/p>\n<p> Hi, <font size=\"+2\" color=\"#CF4040\"><b>John Doe<\/b><\/font>. <\/p>\n<p> Blah blah blah answer blah blah blah. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my previous rant, absurdly elaborate email signatures are still common at Microsoft, and I&#8217;m not just talking about the ones that contain information that may be required by department policy. I&#8217;m talking about signatures that use bright colors, large fonts, maybe a bitmap or two, sometimes even a photo of the sender! I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,103],"class_list":["post-20943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-email","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Despite my previous rant, absurdly elaborate email signatures are still common at Microsoft, and I&#8217;m not just talking about the ones that contain information that may be required by department policy. I&#8217;m talking about signatures that use bright colors, large fonts, maybe a bitmap or two, sometimes even a photo of the sender! I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}