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The startup page on IE used to be an entry in the registry as well... at least back in the day. Not sure if they've ever changed that to a config file somewhere.
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I've ranted about twatty email signatures before, but sat here looking at one that has made me think of something else too.
This may be the most irritating email ever received (or one of many as I've had 12 from the same person today (each one has contained one, one line sentence aside from the signature)).
Firstly, the actual email is written in comic sans. Bad enough, but then comes the signature.
Name
Job Title
Company Name
envelope icon followed by full postal address
telephone icon, the word 'Tel.', then the telephone number including international dialing code and internal extension number
some icon I don't recognise, the word 'Fax:', then fax number including international dialing code
another icon I cannot work out, the word 'Mobile:', then mobile number including international dialing code
computer icon, the word 'E-mail :', then clickable mailto:sillybint@company.co.uk
world icon, the word 'Web :', then clickable url for the company website
And then at the end is an image of a green frog holding up a big red foot and the text (as part of the image) 'BEFORE PRINTING THIS E-MAIL please consider the environment'.
All very irritating and unnecessary stuff, particularly as she works downstairs from me, but between the website and the image are two more lines;
Team Name - Winner Best Technical Team 2010
Team Name - Winner Best Overall Team 2010
Now, aside from these two awards having no significance whatsoever within the company, let alone outside of it, they are 4 years old now. It's time to move on.
Whenever I see things like this, signs in businesses, especially restaurants or fast food places, "Localville Take Away of the Year 2008" for example, I always think to myself why no more since? What has happened since then, have you got a bit sh*t, clearly not been best for a long time, if it has been that many years then maybe I'd better have a look around for somewhere else to eat.
It's even worse if they have two or three from a number of years ago. Just one, maybe the awards committee like to share them around, perhaps they're just attaboys and everyone eventually gets one. But if you won in 2006 and 2007 and still display those signs I just think that you must have really gone downhill in the years since.
How long after winning something does not winning anything else make the thing you did win reflect badly upon you?
Yeah, I'm bored. I've spent most of the day responding to one sentence emails.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: How long after winning something does not winning anything else make the thing you did win reflect badly upon you?
I don't know. Let's ask Dalek Dave - Codeproject MVP 2011[^]
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I'm with you there, my company moved last year, I'm still getting E-mails with our old address in the footer internally... 
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chriselst wrote: How long after winning something does not winning anything else make the thing you did win reflect badly upon you?
Exactly!
Really enjoyed the rant. You are right on about this.
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My company email signature contains 14 lines of information after my name and title.
Slightly over the top too methinks.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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there is software out there for outlook that strips off signatures, normally for internal mail but it might just work on external (I hope, fingers crossed)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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0) Click reply.
1) Highlight the idiotic signature.
2) Type: I did, and your obnoxiously long signature is increasing the number of trees killed and dinosaur blood extract used to paint their corpses. Your use of color ink only makes it worse.
3) Print the draft email.
4) Snailmail it to the offender.
5) ???
6) Win!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ever hear of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer? I think they have been around for a couple of different centuries.
I have a guy that send internal emails with a signature meant for emails sent to a customer. Very distracting.
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chriselst wrote: How long after winning something does not winning anything else make the thing you did win reflect badly upon you?
Come on England '66! 
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Victor Meldrew lives on ....
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All very irritating and unnecessary stuff, particularly as she works downstairs from me, but between the website and the image are two more lines;
Team Name - Winner Best Technical Team 2010
Team Name - Winner Best Overall Team 2010
(chuckle) As irritating as that is, you might want to spend a little time in my alternate universe -- independently published fiction -- for comparative purposes. You know, to establish a baseline.
Indie writers are forever touting "awards" they've won, or claiming "best-selling" status, with absolutely no substantiation. Ask one about it and he'll either slather you with vituperation, change the subject, or clam up completely.
I suppose the desire to be praised is so strong in some people that, in the absence of preferable alternative sources, they'll simply heap praise upon themselves. It comes as no surprise that it happens among engineers, too.
(This message is programming you in ways you cannot detect. Be afraid.)
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This is the best rant post of 2014!
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Can I just point out one thing I find ironic about your rant against unnecessary cruft? The first half of your post is just build up to the actual issue! 
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Well spotted 
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Email signatures kill me. In the States, it's common for some professionals to include degrees after their names (e.g. doctors will put Quack McRubbish, M.D.). However, that's actually trickled down to some putting MBA after their names (even worse on LinkedIn). Those get mercilessly devoured by many. Disclaimer: I also have an MBA, but do you know what my signature is? Just my name. That's it. Oh, and the occasional made up title I assign myself (my nearly-silent protest to nonsense titles like "Internal Sales Support Analyst II"; you're an assistant, just put that), such as "Grand Chancellor" and "Commodore".
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I can see some value in having M.D. after the name--so I know I'm corresponding with a doctor--but MBA is just lame. It seems like everyone has an MBA. Maybe it used to mean something, but not any longer. (I know a lot of people with MBAs that aren't too bright.) Now when I see those letters following a name in email, it just seems like the person is trying too hard.
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And yet no one is bothered by the "signatures" in the forum posts here that contain inane quotes--often many lines longer than the content?
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And I was complaining that 4 lines signatures were too long...
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I haven't read all of the messages in this thread so maybe someone else has already pointed this out but is it possible that the individual sending the email just doesn't know how to change her signature?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28343060[^]
I thought it already had been. That said I read somewhere (here maybe) that its much better in the USA.
That's my only grump with my otherwise wonderful windows phone - Bing is integrated into it.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I do not want to be forgotten. But some things I would rather forget. Whom do I turn to for that?
Life is too shor
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megaadam wrote: Whom What do I turn to for that?
![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) of couse!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Thanks Bing, I'll forget you straight away!
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