Fergus Wilde wrote:
I respectfully submit once again that in order to keep this kind of exchange of taking of offence to a minimum it would help if people limit their sigs to name and address.
The name and address of a poster are generally found in the email-header and repeating them in the .sig will surely be offensive to people who abhorr repetition. I hesitate to join this debate as 1) the question of what is offensive to one and not to another can never be answered definitively and 2) the debate has already gone on for long enough. I am very surprised of the amount of debate a religious .sig has initiated. Whatever people say or put in their .sigs on a mailinglist or elsewhere can only serve to say something about themselves, not about others. If you are abusive, if you swear, if your use of english/german/italian spanish/icelandic is poor, it still only says something about you, your skills, your beliefs and/or your character. If religious zealots wish to portray themselves as such, so be it. If Linux or Windows bigots wish to portray themselves as such, so be it. Etc. I for instance want to advertise my company and our awesome services and I am without a doubt more than a little impressed with what good I do do for mankind. To conclude - if you feel offended by what someone said or put in their .sig, take note and perhaps add that person to your kill-file or filter. They have a right to say what they want and let world know how bright/silly/dim/biggoted/stupid/naive they are - but they can't make you listen. /Per Jessen, Zürich (-4.69 °C) -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.