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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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Master.Man1980 wrote: I already said it before
Great. There's nothing we like more than reposts.
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you think he works for MS? (or Nokia)
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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P0mpey3 wrote: There's nothing we like more than reposts.
You can say that again.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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