Email Signatures: Privacy and Consent
Ross Mayfield cranked up the idea, and Tim O’Reilly picked up on it: adding a privacy checklist to email signatures.
This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
I’m generally of the opinion that anything I send you is fair game, but I’ve had a couple conversations in the last day or so that I’d like to remain private, at least for the time being. [Hi, Kari!] A standardized way to do this would rule … but in the meantime, I like the concept, and I think it’s time for me to tweak my email signature anyway. [If for no other reason than the fact that it's not clear that my cell number obviates any home number for me.]
[That said, I never mind when people ask first if they may quote me. You too, Noah.]
[HT to Ross on Many-to-Many.]
Posted October 5th, 2005 in Geekery.
A fellow on a mailing list I’m on (I think perhaps the NetNewsWire beta list) has had this at the bottom of his e-mails for a long time. I think it’s pretty cool.
October 6th, 2005 at 1:04 amYeah, it’s a nice concept. I’m toying with both 1) the precise wording I want to use and 2) a wording of a brief privacy policy to link to in order to clear up any confusion.
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