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Comment by RyanZAG | Hacker News Reader

Then change it to 'Sent from my phone.' - changing it is a couple clicks, and anybody advertising a product in every message they send deserves any derision they get.

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Derision? Do you also deride people wearing shirts with a crocodile on them? People driving cars with a little lightning bolt in a circle? Businesses issuing paper invoices with the supplier's name printed on the invoice form? (Practices may vary by country.)

Leaving this one line unchanged says ~= zero about a person.

Knowing which device they are on helps me in small ways I don't even consciously remember. For example if someone replied and I knew they are on an iPad this moment, I know that I probably can't expect them to easily sign the PDF agreement I'm about to send and if I really want it. Ack urgently, I should provide an iPad-friendly method to sign and return.

This becomes crucial when you are doing back and forth between potential customers.

You can indicate form-factor / device type without advertising/branding the fact.

If knowing the user agent is seriously crucial for you, you shouldn't rely on "Sent from <user agent>" messages that can be disabled. Instead, you should use an email client that provides functionality similar to the Display Mail User Agent extension for Thunderbird:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/display-m...

I've changed my phone email sig to say just that.

I'm not your billboard.

If you're replying to someone you don't mind getting snarky with, you can always sign your message "Sent from my Atari".

I use "sent from my rotary phone"

"Sent from my Dymo Labeler" here

Sent from an imaginary device.

"i"pad - get it? :)

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