Talk:Signature block

message: I'll weigh in on the dynamic images: I don't know about P2P, but some forums I'm in have users who have stats from webservers as their avatar, and it updates automatically (i.e. number of users, etc - see an example, logo only)
But I was originally wondering about the Forums section.  It seems a little POV to me ("Those stupid teenagers...") Particularly describing teens as "posting mostly one-liner replies followed by really enormous signature blocks including blinking and scrolling text in odd fonts, and dozens of pictures of their favorite celebrities." and the part about "elaborately-constructed HTML and CSS monstrosities."  Especially the former seems exaggerated, or worst-case-scenario.  I have seen some bad ones, but few that are that bad.  --The Human Spellchecker 21:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One forum I visit has some users with HTML signatures approaching 6 kB plus, so "elaborately-constructed HTML and CSS monstrosities" seemed applicable when I added it. :) æle ✆ 22:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV? 

message: The change in UK company law from the beginning of 2007 will significantly tighten up corporate use of email signatures (and make them rather long in the process). The Register states:
Companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their websites and in their email footers before 1 January 2007 or they will breach the Companies Act and risk a fine.
Every company should list its company registration number, place of registration, and registered office address on its website as a result of an update to the legislation of 1985. The information, which must be in legible characters, should also appear on order forms and in emails. Such information is already required on "business letters" but the duty is being extended to websites, order forms and electronic documents.
-- Ashley VH 14:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Company Law Amendment Directive as of January 2007 

message: Can we clean this up?  I did some but it needs more.  Most of the junk on here is not cited, and its simply what various people think signatures should be, or what they are used to on a particular forum or community they post on.  The usenet/email section is woefully undercited as well.--Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk|@ 19:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Who is Kibo and does that reference need to be left? I can't find any info about him/her.
(Photodeus (talk) 23:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kibo 

message: I think that this article lacks information about controversy of the signiature blocks. As clear from the Internet and even posts above, not all of the Internet community agrees that dashed sigs make sense. In fact while browsing the Internet I have recognized that there are people who claim that they change Thunderbird for another client because they do not want the dashes to appear in the message, and there is no simple way to drop them.
I would say that some people feel a sort of "fighting passion" for having the signature dashed (even in this thread it is clear from "Give up already!") while others have the same denying passion. Since these debates exist, it is not quite objective to have the article written in a tone like the dashed sigs follow the all-accepted standard - while I do have such impression when I read the article.
Would anyone more professional than me add a block to the article denoting the existing controversy?
AntiPit (talk) 04:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy should be mentioned 

message: To my knowledge the newline after the space is not required and there are a lot of people not using it. Especially when one just puts his/her name or first name after the '-- ' string. Some e-mail clients don't even care about (while others require a newline). However, the RFC calls it a separator line, so I'd say the newline would be correct. I think this kind of Signature should be mentioned, because it very present in USENET, mailing lists, etc. I think it is possibly related to quotes written like this.
:No, what you have are bullets and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded. -- V for Vendetta, V
I do not have any reference though. Maybe someone else knows on this topic. --Athaba (talk) 14:04, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newline? 

message: I agree with the earlier sentiments that this article should describe the history and current status of signatures in e-mail, Usenet news postings, and other electronic media.  Per WP:NPOV, we should report all verifiable, reliably sourced, non-fringe positions.  We also need to avoid original research by attributing as much of the article as possible to good sources.
IMO, this includes describing the controversies over whether or not to use the Usenet "double-hyphen-plus-space" signature separator in e-mail.
I've tried to find reliable secondary sources for this subject, but without much success.  Most available material is either in Internet RFCs (arguably primary sources rather than secondary), or in various blogs, forums, and other self-published sources normally not allowed in Wikipedia.  Note that primary sources are not absolutely prohibited here, but they must be used sparingly and with care.  The blog/forum postings might be useful as a means of documenting the controversy over whether people do or do not want to use the Usenet standard signature separator in e-mail.
I hope to do some cleanup work on this article in the near future, but any other suggestions would of course be welcome.  — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 20:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The Opera browser, which has its own built-in mail tool and imports/exports mail folders in mbox format, uses "-- \n" (dash-dash-space-CR/LF) as its signature block delineation. Scarletsmith (talk) 20:09, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversies and sources 

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The second one just chops off at right margin vice scrolling! --:GSMC(Chief Mike) Kouklis U.S.NAVY Ret. ⛮🇺🇸 / 🇵🇭🌴⍨talk 16:54, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help wanted