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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: So I let my customers send me faxes
I cannot remember the last time I saw a fax machine (yes, yes, I know you can fax from a computer).
I had a job, many years ago, where we had a central server that faxed a summary of stuff each morning to around a hundred customers around the country.
People liked the faxes because they could walk in, pick up the fax, and read the summary whilst making the coffee, generally getting ready for the day ahead.
We wanted to save money on all the faxing.
All these customers had their own server, we wanted to transfer the data and let them print if the wanted or view on screen.
They liked the faxes.
So I transferred the data to the local server, and then made it fax the fax machine that it was often sat next to.
Moved the cost of the faxes from us to the customers.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Never heard of digitally signed documents?
We have a special server for our customers that enables to upload documents - or fill one online - and sign it digitally...It has legal status of letter...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Most of my customers would be challenged to send me a signed document on their own and I CBA to set up such a server 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Actually we were happy to set up such server and get rid of the fax machine - our customers had serious problem to decide when and what to send on fax so we had a huge warehouse for paper and toner only...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What about the ones that end with: Sent from .... (e.g. my fancy mobile phone)
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Ah yes, people who can't change the default on their phones. Good catch.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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They're really annoying
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Agree with you on everything apart from
chriselst wrote: I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
You know who it's from before you open the e-mail so why do they have to sign off? Are you going to forget by the time you get to the end? I'm a team-lead of a team that consists of members in 3 differnt Countries and deals with departments in another 2, so I receive/reply to around 100-150 e-mails a day so it would bug the hell out of me to do this (that's what the sig is for).
A bug-bear of mine is if I'm in an e-mail chain with 1 other person and they insist on starting each individual message with "Hi Scott". E-mail chains between two people should follow this format.
Hi Scott
Hi Neil
<reply to="" message="">
and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
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PompeyThree wrote: and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
Agree entirely there, establish the formalities in the first exchange and then they are not needed from then on. I just think the formalities should contain the senders name at the bottom that first time too.
Even worse when they bother typing Regards or some such and then let the sig pick up the rest. There is no regard there.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Hi PompeyThree,
Only the first email instance should say Hi. The rest can start with the person's name to let them know where to start off next. No need to Hi them every time.
Bassam
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I hate it when people sign their name and then their email signature provides their name again. This is redundant, anachronistic, and pointless. This "double signing" is annoyingly grating to me, and I'm not sure why as it seems like only a minor issue. For example,
Regards,
Bob Smith
Bob Smith
Big Company Ltd.
33 Big Street
phone 3141592653589
Please don't do this!
// mght ToDo:
// Put Signature Here
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chriselst wrote: I hate ones that include the email address like the email doesn't know where it's come from.
Strangely enough that's the one thing I really want on emails.
It's not rare than I need to share documents/projects online with colleagues and inevitably this is done by email address within the online application.
So invariably it ends up with me finding an email the person sent and trying to extract their email address or trying to do the same from the Outlook address book(working in Cambridge means that many people have foreign names either because they are not British or because their parents were called Featherstonhaugh - pronounced Fanshaw).
Because of the 'everything is connected' attitude of some software designers it's sometimes blinking difficult to extract something as simple as an email address from a contact.
[Edit 'of' changed to 'or']
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 1-Mar-16 8:48am.
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I could not agree more with the second part.
AND
I also hate emails address in emails.
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Following the famous hacking, Sony now fax or courier paper copies of all potentially sensitive documents as a matter of policy. Fax may well be back! Sorry!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I love email signatures.
Whenever I need to call someone I check my mailbox and their most recent mail probably has their number in it.
Way faster than going through the phone book on our devices 
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Phone numbers are acceptable.
Although you have to be careful.
A few years ago I was downloading a trial of some software, they required a phone number so I clicked on an email from a colleague and use the phone number.
Didn't realise it was her direct number, I didn't realise anyone in the company had a direct number, just assumed it would be the switchboard number.
She spent weeks fielding sales calls for me.
Which was probably better for me than them having the switchboard number, as they would have just patched the calls straight through.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
Someone once asked me, why don't I just put my name in my sig-line, and that is exactly the reason why.
Marc
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I'm there with you brother. I've sent replies with the other person's signature deleted. I've sent my own obnoxious signature in caps and large fonts and nothing works.
I hate getting a chain of emails all with signatures, especially from a coworker 5 feet away.
I hate the disclaimer at the bottom that says to delete if you are not the intended recipient.
I hate when they have to put their credentials on there. Jane Doe, PMP or John Doe, CSM
The place I work at, nearly everyone uses them and they think it's professional. My bosses is near 20 lines, with a logo with it and now other people are starting to do it.
I'm at the point that I stop talking to people or sending the emails because I hate signatures so much.
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I may have used signatures back in my early Usenet days, but I've been sig-free now for longer than some people on this site have been alive.
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I hate the multi-paragraph corporate disclaimer "signatures" written by lawyers for huge multi-nationals. 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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chriselst wrote: I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
Says the guy with a signature on the bottom of his message that didn't sign his name...
Hogan
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chriselst wrote: I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it
I don't understand this one : Do you type your name everytime because you do not want to include it in your standard sig ??
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Every time I want to include it, yes, it is 5 characters, doesn't take me long.
Having your name in your sig only is like using a name stamp to sign birthday cards.
It is impersonal, and IMHO more insulting than not signing at all.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I have only my name in my sig, so you would not even tell the difference.
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Where I currently work(leaving at the end of the month), it is company policy that anyone with a PHD has to include either "Dr" at the beginning of their name or PHD after their name.
The rest of us plebs with ordinary bachelor's degrees or (heaven forbid - do you sense my sarcasm?) those who have never been blessed with an academic qualification from a university have nothing after our names.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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