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Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing
From: Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:52:39 -0400
On May 2, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
--- ronald.dasilva () twcable com wrote: On 5/1/07 7:19 PM, "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:: Randy's MUA automatically deletes email sent directly to him... Probably because you have a 12+ line .sig full of lawyer-speak.Both practices arguably ingenious or idiotic... -----------------------------------------------------Doesn't matter. He doesn't want to see the .sig and it's his email system. Others do the same.I gotta admit it's a really big .sig that's utterly useless. It *IS* being disseminated, distributed and copied and on a global basis. It's "unlawful" in what country? No one's going to delete all copies. Blah, blah, blah...
Yup, these really long .sigs used to annoy me no end, especially when trying to read email over dial-up or satellite or some other slow access method. I used to complain to the sender that it was a stupid, unenforceable practice....
And then I worked for a place that automagically inserted something similar....
After countless (ok, it was probably only 9 or so, but it sure felt countless at the time) meetings with different groups all pointing fingers at each other ("Its legal's doing!", "SOX! We have to do it for SOX reasons", "The mail server automatically does it and we don't know where to turn it off"(!), "Think of the children!") I eventually just gave in and lived with it...
That fact that my (work) emails had some random gobbledygook inserted that I had no control over didn't in any way change the importance [0] or validity[1] of what I had typed above it (and giving up the fight allowed me to work on other, more important stuff -- like keeping the network running).
I don't think that Ron is choosing to put this .sig in his mail, some ugly corporate mail gateway is probably appending it for him. While he could spend a huge amount of time trying to explain to someone at Time Warner that it is a stupid thing to do, I sure he has better things to do...
Warren [0] about zero [1] also about zero.
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- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Kradorex Xeron (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Ron da Silva (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Ron da Silva (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Martin Hannigan (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Scott Weeks (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Ron da Silva (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Jay Hennigan (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Warren Kumari (May 02)
- RE: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing andrew2 (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Warren Kumari (May 02)
- E-mail addresses and signatures [was: RE: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing] Steve Gibbard (May 04)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Ron da Silva (May 02)
- Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Scott Weeks (May 02)
- RE: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Brandon Butterworth (May 04)