On Sep 27, 2026, at 6:05 PM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
>> Email signatures like bob.jones_at_gmail.com sans any organizational association doesn't cut it.
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> Not everyone has an organizational association.
It is not so much the affiliation and more about the ability for somebody to determine the authority of the person posting a message. A message sans any email address or signature carry zero weight. "Who is this person, and why should I care? Who stands behind these words?" An email message coming from bob.jones_at_gmail.com sans a signature is almost just as bad. An email message coming from eric_morgan_at_infomtions.com sans a signature is at least (somewhat) identifiable to by looking up infomotions.com.
To put in another way, this is not an anonymous bulletin board system, and people who repeatably post messages sans some sort of way learn who they are and not a dog will made aware of of this policy. [1] The original "Five dead websites and the people still paying for them" was not only spam and AI slop, but it also carried zero authority.
It is kinda like information literacy. "Why should I trust such and such sort of information?"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog
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Eric Morgan <eric_morgan_at_infomotions.com>
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Received on Mon Sep 28 2026 - 10:21:04 EDT