Signature a signature in enamels or Usenet Postings is called. It is beginning established convention, a Signature with a line, those only the character sequence "„--" "“(two hyphens and a blank) contains to add to the message text. This makes it for the most E-Mail programs and new readers possible to separate the Signature when answering since it can be recognized so automatically.

Contents and length

A Signature should not be longer normally than four lines 80 indications, which is considered rarely however in business E-Mail traffic. Signatures do not have to do and be allowed to do inevitably something with actual contents of the E-Mail or the Postings also December duck advertisement to contain.

Hello, that is an example text, in order to demonstrate Signatures. -- Maren and max sample man Musterstr. 8, 88888 sample city Tel.: 0333 88888, fax: 0333 88999 Internet: www.wikipedia.org 

Day LINEs

A special kind of signatures the day LINEs used in mailboxes are in former times frequent. Here it was usual to attach to its Echomail a short saying, a single-line joke or a sentence with a Lebensweisheit. Before this background such short sayings also today still day LINEs are called, even if they find for example in enamels or forums use. (See also Fortune.)

Signature programs

The Signatures of programmers contains sometimes the source text of a small computer program, for example "„a JAPH "“. Turned around short programs, whose source text in a Signature place would find, are called occasionally "„signature programs "“, even if they were never a component of a Signature. The following example contains - beside contents usual in a Signature - the source text (here green dyed) a program in the programming language C, which computes prime numbers:

Main (x, y/* Patrik Lundin | xxxxxx@xxxx.xxxx.xx *) {for (; x++;) for (y=2/* Docentv. 28 | xxxxxxx@xx.xxxx.xx */x%y;)printf (

Related links

Signature collections:

• Dieter signature collection
• Michael Diederichs signature collection
• Christian Pepers signature collection
• Fray to Faases collection of signature programs

Mozilla extensions:

• Signature SWITCH
• Signature
• Tagzilla
• Quotator

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