Thunderbird Address Book feature next to useless

[burns]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:36, Kurt Wall wrote:

> 
> .sig files are places for individual expression, IMHO. I don't trouble with
> vcards. But that's just me.
> 


'Back in the day,' purists were in the majority and were pretty fussy
about how you structured sigs and how much space you took up. Flame wars
often erupted over such small scale electronic nitpicking. Most folks
tried to include a witty or obtusely humorous one-liner. It was heresy
to include blank lines, ascii drawings were for newbies, and very large
ascii drawings were cause for ostracization. 

Small content differences like this actually made a difference - most of
the folks on this list can probably recall downloading through manually
initiated sockets, over a 4800 baud modem. An unobtainable dream was to
have a 64k ISDN line.

AISTR Vcards were introduced more recently by the business community (or
those attempting to cater to it) as an electronic business card, that
could be paperclipped virtually to a number of files and types of
correspondance.

-- 
burns
<insert witty sig line here>