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Okay, I'm making a point of calming down, and re-reading the last few posts.
I want to applogize for being unduely disruptive. It's not a habit, I swear. I do have a temper, and lately I've had more trouble keeping it than I've had in years, but if you'd asked me yesterday I wouldn't have guessed this whole signature business would be such a big deal to me.
Haus - It takes up the same amount of space, but it demonstrates that the approach of the person writing is actually to treat the exchange as correspondence - as an exchange equivalent to the exchange of letters rather than the exchange of spoken words.
Hrmm. It's kind of a reversal of logic, I think - I have actually taken to signing my hand-written correspondences (what few there are) with -Ember- (longer lines). I do make a small distinction between stand-alone correspondance emails (which I usually sign "Be Well, --Ember--") vs. writings that are part of an ongoing dialogue (which I only sign in the usual way).
In my mind posting boards, online journals, and emails are not equivalent to either spoken conversation or printed words. They're their own unique level of interaction. But I do treat IMs as equivalent to speech, and don't sign in that context.
I think it's the nature of delayed vs. real time. I know an email I write may not be read for some time, and a post I write may be read over and over again far into the distant future. IMs are immediate.
Does that make sense?
The only person who ties tham in to your behaviour is xk, I think, who points out that she was exaggerating to make a point.
I see your point. Honestly I think if we hadn't already been on the topic of it in an initially negative (if mildly) way, I probably wouldn't have percieved it as personal, but it was just a lot combined with the rest.
Susan -
It has an 'over and out' quality to it
Heh, that's actually kind of funny, since I work radio base for the Operations/Crowd Control (we can't call it "security" 'cause that means legal things) team at a pagan convention each year. It's totally unrelated, but I'm actually used to ending everything I say with "One Eight Clear".
In this case, I mean the signature much more like "over" than "over and out". I'm sure that doesn't help at all. I can live with people thinking I'm a bit more formal.
You probably won't find people bring up the sig thing in other forums.
It's true - which is why I'm still here, actually. If I'd gotten this in the Temple I wouldn't have stayed to argue the point this much.
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