And lo on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:51:51 -0000, Fa3ien  
<fab### [at] yourshoesskynetbe> did spake, saying:


>> And lo on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:40:06 -0000, Fa3ien  
>> <fab### [at] yourshoesskynetbe> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> New colleague (worked 6 months in a bigger firm, before).
>>> We use Thunderbird as mail client.
>>>
>>> Yesterday :
>>> she : how do I add a signature to my mails ?
>>> me : go there (showing the dialog), and specify a text file which  
>>> contains your signature
>>>
>>> Today :
>>> she : it doesn't work, the signature
>>> me : ?
>>> she : I've made my signature in a Word file and it just shows two bars
>>> me : (mentally slapping forehead)
>>  You mean Thunderbird doesn't allow you to create a signature directly?
>
> No, it doesn't. Not very smart, indeed.
>
> BTW, the little story wasn't about "how stupid are users" but rather how
> I, inconsciously, thought that "text file" was equal to "ascii" for
> anyone (which is natural and obvious for geeks).  I can't say she's wrong
> if she thinks "text file" == ".doc", of course.

Oh no I got that, if you ask any non-geek to write something the first  
thing they'll reach for is Word (or equivalent). I was just surprised that  
you couldn't type a signature directly into Thunderbird. Seems a rather  
obvious missing feature.

>> Then again I suppose it might mean you can rotate thorugh a stack of  
>> different signatues automatically.
>
> Neither.

Well I expect someone here could knock out a TCL/Haskell/Perl script to  
swap text files around or read a line out of a master document to insert  
into the signature file.

-- 
Phil Cook

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