Why I put a slash before my signature !?

[cettolox]

Hi,
this is strange...

it's about 10 years now that in I sign my emails with a slash before my name, like this: /Stefano

I remember there was a reason, but I don't remember it anymore !!!!!!!!!

Maybe someone "slashes" his own signature ? WHY ??????

:-)

/Stefano

[gjehle]

i sign my emails with

//
myname

welcome to the club ;-)

to why i do this...
i guess to separate the signature from the content

[AbteriX]

I saw this with companies email communication.
If the know each other, the sign with there initials only, like the use just "/JR", instead of "Jerome Rich"

[Carol Haynes]

Is it something to do with Usenet? I seem to remember that correctly configure news readers should ignore signatures when they are properly formatted - and I think that involved either / or //

[f0dder]

Iirc signatures involve "-- " and not "//"...

[Carol Haynes]

Fair enough - I couldn't remember. It was just a thought

[edbro]

I just thought your mamma named you "/Stefano". There is a punk rocker named Slash.

[cranioscopical]

Perhaps it's political.  Do you lean towards the right?

[Curt]

I guess you are so old that you once upon a time used to write your name with something called a pencil. I know I did. And I always signed my (paper) notes with /Curt, to have the signature (= the slash in the signature) signal the end of what was before (to the left of) the slash.

[Hirudin]

If I saw it I'd assume it was to show that you're statement has ended. Like an HTML tag.
Some people will do stuff like this as well...
Yeah, that was real helpful! /sarcasm