Description
An email signature is a block of text appended to the end of an email message, often containing the sender’s name, address, phone number, disclaimer or other contact information.
“Traditional” internet cultural .sig practices assume the use of monospaced ASCII text because they pre-date MIME and the use of HTML in email. In this tradition, it is common practice for a signature block to consist of one or more lines containing some brief information on the author of the message, such as phone number and email address, URLs for sites owned or favoured by the author—but also often a quotation (occasionally automatically generated by such tools as fortune), or an ASCII art picture. Among some groups of people, it has been common to include self-classification codes.
