Why do some people find it necessary to put some irrelevant quote after their signature in forum and mailing list postings? When you see posts from these people several times a day it becomes incredibly irritating.
One person whose posts I seem to encounter frequently has two quotes after his signature: "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!" and "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
I can't say I ever found the first one very funny but it has got very old after the 100th viewing. And I didn't join a ham radio mailing list to learn about people's political opinions, whether or not I agree with them. So please, just stop doing it.
Hi Julian, I fully agree with you. 73 Paul
ReplyDeleteJulian, as you will know, I am one of those people that adds a random quote at the end of most of my mails.
ReplyDeleteI have had comments about this from a number of lists, and I have asked for peoples feedback on whether I should or should not continue with the comments.
In all of the lists except for UK-Contest the majority was to continue, with comments along the lines of it being a lift for thier day, just entertaining and why not!
So I will continue to do so, except for UK-Contest, where I try to remember to remove the quote.
Personally, I'm ok with it and enjoy other peoples quotes too.
I guess it's horses for courses and there is always the delete button.
Hi David. One of the things that makes quotes so annoying is seeing the same thing several times a day so a random quote, depending on the content and the number of variations, is not as bad as a static one.
ReplyDeleteit's random (although I think the algorithm may be sentient) 1 out of 200+ and that number grows each time I see a good quote. And I try pick short ones.
ReplyDeleteJulian,
ReplyDeleteMy MUA allows me to zap the "signature file" which is of course a carryover from the earliest days of the Internet. But my only real beef with long sigs is when they exceed the length of the email. One guy on a QRP list has an eleven line signature file, complete with an ASCII image, and his list postings often say little more than, "yeah, I agree"...
I would (quietly cheer) if his PC failed and he lost all his data including that signature file! :-)
73 de Jeff