Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

April 1, 2008
2:08 am
Posted in: Politics
tree on a hill
'driveby tree' by Lorrie McClanahan (Flickr)

Jason Kottke notes that some people are including the line “Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail” (or some variation) in their e-mail signatures.  Looking back, I found a couple e-mails sent to me that have that signature. How about this: trees are a renewable resource — my time isn’t.  If you treat your e-mails to me as an opportunity to berate me with holier-than-thou ecocentrism, don’t be surprised if I pay you as much attention as I would a street preacher forecasting humanity’s imminent doom.

Mark Jaquith

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