Rgds,

J.

Has been my (signature) signature for the longest time, so I am sticking to it...

thx
i'm crazy busy so abrevs and lc but i appreciate the info

ttfn
code for i have kids. if you understand then so do you and can identify

Great e-mail!

C

hehe, great topic!

I had this eccentric corporate law professor who'd sign his emails with bits of trivia.

So...instead of "Thanks", he'd write "Terima Kasih (Malay for Thank You)" and stuff like;

“The first person who tasted a crab must also have tried a spider but realized that it was not as good to eat.” — Lu Xun (translation)",

....using about 15 different font colours for just that one sentence, and squiggly lines and everything.

He'd be a good marketer.

I dunno fellas, I am as conservative as the next bloke, but I never overlook, or forget, emails from this chap. It's always fun as well to see what he says next. I bet someone could code a script with rotating messages for email signatures...

Kind Regards - Sounds British so it must be polite

Regards

or

Kind regards

or

(informal)

pip pip

All Martin Lukes readers (Financial Times, Thursdays) can appreciate the sign-offs "bestest" or "all my bestest".

BTW, I think your characterizations are right-on. I react poorly whenever I get an e-mail from an American that closes with "cheers." I'll make allowances for Brits.

Josh

As if I needed more things to be self-conscious about, thanks :)

Daniel, when I was in college (back when we did email by logging into a unix server and using "elm" or "pine"), it seemed that inserting quotes or other tidbits in the email signature was fairly common, and in fact I wrote a script that randomly picked some text from a text file and inserted it into my email signature. The script ran every time I logged in, and I was always adding things to the text file, so my emails had a good variation of signatures.

Seth:

I couldn't stop smiling at the accuracy of your characterization of the different signatures. I have used "Best" most often in the past few years and found it to be the best :)

I rather like Geo. Washington's "I remain, your humble and obedient servant." But of course I don't generally write the Continental Congress.

I'm way too lazy to add a signature.

my mail client does it for me :)

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I always liked the signatures that quoted a Grateful Dead lyric, but working in enough corporate environments dissuaded me from laying too many cards on the table about my personal tastes. Hence my bland signoff.

Regards,
-Usher
(Which roughly means my regards are neither warm nor cold, they simply are what they are and you can refer above in my email for the fuller context.)

Quite good, similar to what me think.

Whatever happened to "Be well" - that was very popular for a while.

And despite your snide characterizations, all are better than

F* you,

Dave

Regards is very impersonal.

I like to end my messages with "Peace," if I am very familiar with that person and have a semi-informal relationship with them. I've just started getting into "Cheers."

"Thanks" with no emotion behind it is the worst.

Seth,

What about "namaste" as a sign-off?

Namaste,

Peter