Thunderbird Address Book feature next to useless

[Net Llama!]

On 10/30/2004 05:33 AM, David Bandel wrote:
> On 29 Oct 2004 21:41:25 -0400, burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> sigs should be no more than 4 lines long.  And only the truly clueless
> put those absurd, humorless, and completely useless 60+ line legal
> stupidity on messages.

Those are usually forced upon employees by their employer's legal 
departments.  Most people don't use them because they think they're a 
good idea.


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