Off topic: Sent from my Foo messages

[Terry Reedy]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 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.

At least it is just one tag line and the the 20 lines of legal 'If you 
received this in error' spam some  organizations tack on the end ;-).