Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: begin w/ a From: ?

[Tom Patton (tom]

On Mon, 7 Mar 1994, Judy wrote:

> From: Judy Baxter ---         baxter [at] epivax.epi.umn.edu
> 
> Jake writes:
> <FROM: Jake.Morrison [at] Synapse.org
> but I'm disturbed by one thing: It is very hard in almost all messages to
> determine who is speaking. In over half the messages there is no reference to 
> a
> name, in half of the rest the reference is a first name and, in the rest, 
> there
> is a signature block at the end of the message with full particulars. I find 
> it
> difficult to follow these conversations with no names attached.>
> 
>  Good Point - I like the convention of starting out with who we are. It would
> certainly help me - my postings come with a huge header, buried within which 
> is
> the email address - which sometimes includes a clear name, sometimes not.  I'm
> willing.
> 

While we're on the subject, how about including location in the signature
portion of the message?  Someone else mentioned this a while back, but I
am still deciphering geographical locales by email address.

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   Tom Patton                                      Unison-Tymlabs
   tom_patton [at] unison.com                           Austin, Texas USA
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