Is an 80 character sig file too wide?

Hello,

I realize the ideal sig file should be less than 72 characters in width but was
wondering if I could get away with 80.  Any idea what percent of users would
have problems reading my sig? 

I'm trying to create this for my business e-mail and thought I had a perfection
until I realized the width.  If the recipient receives a bunch of jumbled
characters obviously I'm not going to look too professional and defeat the
purpose entirely.  

Anyway I would appreciate any feedback or advice.  Oh one last thing, do those
look like mountains?

TIA,

-daniel
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Daniel Huggard wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I realize the ideal sig file should be less than 72 characters in width but was
> wondering if I could get away with 80.  Any idea what percent of users would
> have problems reading my sig?
> 
> I'm trying to create this for my business e-mail and thought I had a perfection
> until I realized the width.  If the recipient receives a bunch of jumbled
> characters obviously I'm not going to look too professional and defeat the
> purpose entirely.
> 
> Anyway I would appreciate any feedback or advice.  Oh one last thing, do those
> look like mountains?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> -daniel
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           1         2         3         4         5         6    
Hows this?

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Daniel Huggard wrote:
> Anyway I would appreciate any feedback or advice.  Oh one last thing, do those
> look like mountains?

Yes   :-)

> -daniel
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Btw, your sig is more than 80 characters wide. You have to count the
spaces at the end of some of the lines! I suggest you remove those,
since they don't fill any purpose. (I've marked the end of the
potentially problematic lines in your sig above with X to make those
spaces "more visible")


To make the sig more narrow? Hmmm... Something like this maybe?

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I always make mine 71...it seems to cover 95% of the browsers and readers!

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Daniel Huggard wrote in message <375...@nospamwebvana.com>...
>Hello,
>
>I realize the ideal sig file should be less than 72 characters in width but
was
>wondering if I could get away with 80.  Any idea what percent of users
would
>have problems reading my sig?
>
>I'm trying to create this for my business e-mail and thought I had a
perfection
>until I realized the width.  If the recipient receives a bunch of jumbled
>characters obviously I'm not going to look too professional and defeat the
>purpose entirely.
>
>Anyway I would appreciate any feedback or advice.  Oh one last thing, do
those
>look like mountains?
>
>TIA,
>
>-daniel
> _____________________________________________________________
>( h e l p i n g   y o u   a t t a i n   w e b   s u c c e s s )   /\
> |  Daniel Huggard                                             /\/  /\
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/\
> |  http://www.webvana.com                                 /  \   /      /
\
> |  888.555.1212                                          /    \
\
> O------------------------------------------------------- w  e  b  v  a  n
a O
>
>

Daniel Huggard <dan...@nospamwebvana.com> writes:

> I realize the ideal sig file should be less than 72 characters in width but was
> wondering if I could get away with 80.

The 72 char limit is to allow for quoting in followups (your 80 char
first line has now wrapped), but as sigs are not meant to be quoted,
up to 80 chars are ok.

> Any idea what percent of users would have problems reading my sig? 

Probably only those using a palmtop.
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