OT: Signing one's messages - cultural question

[P. J. Alling]

I look at mail on this list as more of a conversation than a 
correspondence.  In a conversation you don't usually "sign" your name.  
Other lists may be more formal, and certainly there are formal e-mails 
much like formal letters.

Boris Liberman wrote:
> Hi!
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>> On 12/11/06, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed:
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>>> Obviously, you know it is me writing this message. My name is written
>>> in your e-mail client program. And probably you can also "hear it in
>>> my accent when I talk"... Yet, is it customary in your culture to sign
>>> your electronic messages? It is in mine. Though I noticed some people
>>> on the list don't bother.
>>>       
>> Why Boris, exactly which culture would that be??  ;-)
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> The culture of people who don't sign their e-mails ;-).
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> Indeed in the age of electronic auto everything, one could create a 
> signature and be done with it. But then of course there're people who 
> even don't bother with this.
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> I don't really care - I mean I would tolerate it either way, but I am 
> curious as to why people may decide not to sign...
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> Boris
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