On 4 Mar 2007 at 11:45, Bartning@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com wrote (or, rather, AOL (bleccch) appended):
<BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.
As if AOL wasn't already a hive of scum and villainy, now they're inflicting the above stupid ad footer on all sorts of mailing lists, complete with idiotic HTML tags even in the plain text version (which is what ends up showing up on text-only lists and digest versions).
It's called a signature. Are you really that offended about it?
And no offence, but what's that at the bottom of your emails? Personally I found your mail website quite informative when I browsed it a few weeks ago - but commercial or not, it's still an ad of sorts...
On 3/4/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
It's called a signature. Are you really that offended about it?
And no offence, but what's that at the bottom of your emails? Personally I found your mail website quite informative when I browsed it a few weeks ago - but commercial or not, it's still an ad of sorts..
I think what his problem might be is that this might be a compulsory signature added by AOL to all outgoing mail. Netzero use to do this back when they were free. This seems likely here because people usually don't add HTML tags to their sigs but it sounds like something a corporate marketing drone would come up with.
It's called a signature. Are you really that offended about it?
And no offence, but what's that at the bottom of your emails? Personally I found your mail website quite informative when I browsed it a few weeks ago - but commercial or not, it's still an ad of sorts...
On 04/03/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 4 Mar 2007 at 11:45, Bartning@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com wrote (or, rather, AOL (bleccch) appended):
<BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.
As if AOL wasn't already a hive of scum and villainy, now they're inflicting the above stupid ad footer on all sorts of mailing lists, complete with idiotic HTML tags even in the plain text version (which is what ends up showing up on text-only lists and digest versions).
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On a side note, why does Gary Kirk's post appear twice in this thread, one with and one without the quoted text?
I've had this happen to me once. Gmail glitch perhaps?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AOL doing the exact same thing that Yahoo's been doing for ages?
On 3/4/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On a side note, why does Gary Kirk's post appear twice in this thread, one with and one without the quoted text?
I've had this happen to me once. Gmail glitch perhaps?
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On 3/4/07, Pilotguy pilotguy.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AOL doing the exact same thing that Yahoo's been doing for ages?
Yes, but at least theirs don't include HTML lamage.
I've never been crazy about compulsory sigs because I always felt that the body of an email was for the sender and it should be clear to the recipient what comes from the sender and what comes from "something else". The headers are for the "something else".
Some webmail providers have "promotional sigs" but they are not "compulsory". The user can go to preferences and remove it and/or add their own.
Exactly, Y! Mail has always had the compulsory sig and the user can add their own above, like with Hotmail. My two messages was due to me (on a PDA) accidentally unticking Include quotas text, not noticing, clicking send, noticing, ticking and re-sending. Oops.
On 05/03/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/4/07, Pilotguy pilotguy.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AOL doing the exact same thing that Yahoo's been doing for ages?
Yes, but at least theirs don't include HTML lamage.
I've never been crazy about compulsory sigs because I always felt that the body of an email was for the sender and it should be clear to the recipient what comes from the sender and what comes from "something else". The headers are for the "something else".
Some webmail providers have "promotional sigs" but they are not "compulsory". The user can go to preferences and remove it and/or add their own.
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It's called a signature. Are you really that offended about it?
What I find particularly bothersome is the <BR> tags, inserted bizarrely in the plain-text version of the messages, as seen in the text-only digest mode version of this list.
This list is plaintext. Not AOL's fault particularly, but yes it looks a little bizarre. Oh well...
On 04/03/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
It's called a signature. Are you really that offended about it?
What I find particularly bothersome is the <BR> tags, inserted bizarrely in the plain-text version of the messages, as seen in the text-only digest mode version of this list.
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