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title: Sent from my iPhone
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- opinion
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created: 1302019200
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<img width="150" align="right" alt="This gif is stupid" src="http://agentdero.cachefly.net/unethicalblogger.com/images/email.gif"/>
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Since moving to Berkeley a little under a year ago, I've started to have a
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commute. A good and proper, bored to tears commute via
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[BART](http://www.bart.gov). A commute combined with a proper smartphone means
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I spent the first and last 40 minutes of every single workday answering emails
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and reading [reddit](http://www.reddit.com).
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While firing off some emails this evening I noticed the signature I added a
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*long* time ago: "*Sent from my Nokia n900*"
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Originally I added the signature as a caddy jab at
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[iPhone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) users who have had
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the "Sent from my iPhone" appended to every email sent from the device going
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back to January of 2007. The more I started to
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<strike>over-analyze</strike> think about it, these signatures actually make a
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**lot** of sense and should be included on just about every device that offers
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a limited email client.
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If for no other reason than to inform the reader(s) of the email that it might
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suck, for a number of legitimate reasons.
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**Goddamn autocorrect**: sending a grammatically flawness email from a
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smartphone is impossible. Invariable an phone will auto-correct "schmidt" to
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"schlong" and all of a sudden you look like a moron. Having a "Sent from my
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`mobile device`" footer is like a disclaimer. To whom it may concern, my email
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may be riddled with mistakes, you'll have to forgive me, I'm walking down the
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street responding to emails that could probably wait.
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**Top posting**: for the record, I *hate* top-posts and typically try to avoid
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them at every turn, for reasons that I won't go into in this post. If your
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top-posted message contains your "mobile disclaimer", it's acceptable. Trying
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*not* to top-post on smartphones these days is near-impossible, so nobody will
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think any less of you.
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**Brevity**: let's face it, there's a lot of extra words in sentences that
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exist purely to provide some inter-personal lubricant. "Hey Jared, would you
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mind checking on those services running on those machines when you get a
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chance, thanks, love you too, etc." When emailing on the go, particularly when
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you're in an on-call situation, brevity is key (especially if somehow your
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production machines are offline). "Check services on machines 1-12" without the
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mobile disclaimer might make the reader think I'm an impatient twat (I am, but
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irregardless), instead of being strapped for time.
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----
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On the flip-side of all these reasons, if you're using a desktop/web client, I
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expect you to put as much thought into composing your email as you expect me to
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put into reading it. You know who you are.
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