Off topic: Sent from my Foo messages

[Steven D'Aprano]

I'm seeing more and more posts from various people, on this list and 
others, with statements like the following:

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:45:35 -0400, David Di Biase wrote:

> Sent from my iPhone

Also "Sent from my Blackberry" and similar.

Without wishing to be rude to David, who I'm sure is a nice guy and not 
at all the pretentious git that such a line makes him appear, are people 
adding this comment to the bottom of their posts, or is it something that 
their device automatically appends to the post?

If people are adding it themselves, that's nice, I'm sure you're really 
excited about your new toy, but the rest of us don't care a monkey's 
toss. And if the device is automatically appending it, I think that's 
pretty damn rude and a good reason to avoid buying the obnoxious machines.



-- 
Steven