20 years ago, an email signature was frowned upon, if it was more than 4 lines long! It's because so many people were still paying for access per BYTE of data! :)
I really wish those rules of thumb had stuck, but of course as bandwidth increased, emails started to incorporate HTML/CSS... and of course, all email servers now send the email in two parts, so that there is still a plain text version.
And someone saw that you could make emails pretty... so why can't you make footers pretty?
And that was the end, my friends, of a more simple time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
