Re: email signatures
Incoming from Daniel Teichert:
> And I heard Paul Johnson exclaim:
> > "Matthew Joyce" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au> writes:
> > > Thanks everyone, and for the record I do not intend to actual use it for
> > > a disclaimer which I personally find pointless, but our fundraising
> > > department want to promote charity events.
> >
> > That's not an improvement. That's just using legitimate mail to
> > spam. Not cool.
> >
> > - --
> > .''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
> > : :' :
> > `. `'` proud Debian admin and user
> > `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org
> aboutdebian.com
>
> Err... how would this materially differ from advertising, say, the
> Debian distribution in your sig?
Ha! Good one Daniel. fwiw, I thought Paul's comment was ludicrous.
Spam is UCE/UBE. Assuming the email that the .sig arrives in isn't
UCE/UBE, whatever arrives with that email (barring malware payloads)
can't be described as UCE/UBE/Spam. It might be stupid as recent
discussions of attached disclaimers can attest, but they're not
UCE/UBE/Spam either.
There's a lot worse things that can happen in a .sig than charity
promotions. Take a gander through alt.ascii-art for some real
travesties.
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