Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 264.
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        Date: 2024-11-30 08:02:26+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: signatures

As some here may have noticed, I have for some time attempted to 
understand through editorial action what limits placed on the size 
and verbosity of e-mail signatures would aid readers of Humanist or 
any other e-mail. I trust it goes without saying that announcements 
of one's own publications are more than welcome here, so also 
notices of projects, collaborations and so on. The problem I see 
occurs when signatures grow to such proportions that they begin 
to compete with, even to overwhelm, the main text of messages 
that precede them.

I've been unable to come up with a rule to live by, other than 'keep it
short'. Might anyone here have a better, more helpfully specific rule to
measure with?

Comments and suggestions please.

Best,
Willard


--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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