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25 July 2007

How do you sign off on e-mails? →[More:]This may sound silly, but when I send e-mails I tend to treat them as regular letters, with a heading and all. With family and very close friends I sign "Love" before my name. But with friends, and especially Mecha friends, "Love" can sound a bit too much (even though I love all of you anyway). "Regards" sounds prissy, "Sincerely" isn't enough. So what do you all do?

post by: redvixen at: 18:11 | 44 comments

cheers,
chewie

posted by chewatadistance 25 July | 18:20

just initials usually. sometimes "yours"

posted by small_ruminant 25 July | 18:21

¡Viva La Revolucion!
jonmc

posted by jonmc 25 July | 18:25

Talk soon, Lori. Or just, Lori.

"Talk soon" is sort of odd, but I will soon be talking with them.

One of my friends uses her initials.

I made reservations at Magnolia for 6:30. See you then.

RBA

I like the initial thing.

posted by LoriFLA 25 July | 18:25

I sign personal emails thus:

d.

Professional emails are signed thus:

Best,

Dersins Dersinserson
Job Title, Place of Employment
Office: 503.XXX.XXXX
Mobile: 503.XXX.XXXX

posted by dersins 25 July | 18:28

Informal (friends, family, long-time cow-orkers):

- m

Formal:

Full Name
Phone number

posted by D.C. 25 July | 18:38

(also, whenever I email MeFites for the first time, they always seem surprised that the 'mc' is just the first two letters of my last name. I guess they thought it was some secret code)

posted by jonmc 25 July | 18:51

Depends on the sitch. For the most part, I do

Cheers!
=s=

I don't know why, it just kind of happened. More formal situations typically get a polite 'have a nice day/week/weekend/whatever'.

posted by ufez 25 July | 18:56

...after recent events, I'm signing all my emails:

I apologize in advance,
I am really really really sorry,
Currently in sackcloth and ashes,
Wendell

posted by wendell 25 July | 19:03

unless something more formal is called for, I just go with

cheers,
jjb

posted by jjb 25 July | 19:07

Work (to external people or people I don't know well):
[my name]
[job title]
[unit name]
Department of x, x and x
P: 07-xxxx xxxx
M: 0411-xxx xxx
F: 07-xxxx xxxx

please note change of e-mail address to myname@xxx.xxx.gov.au (this because our department name, therefore e-mail addresses, have changed and the grace period where both will work is almost up)

Please consider the environment before printing this email (this used to have a little tree beside it, but I took it off when I found that people who convert messages to plan text end up with a P instead, which looked silly)

This E-Mail is intended only for the addressee. Its use is limited to that intended by the author at the time and it is not to be distributed without the author's consent. Unless otherwise stated, the State of Queensland accepts no liability for the contents of this E-Mail except where subsequently confirmed in writing. The opinions expressed in this E-Mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the State of Queensland. This E-Mail is confidential and may be subject to a claim of legal privilege.

If you have received this E-Mail in error, please notify the author and delete this message immediately.
(the above disclaimer is automagically added to messages sent externally after I send the message)

Work (staff in my area or that I know well):
Regards

dg
(if sent to all of my team, often followed by a pithy quote I have collected from somewhere)

Other people:

Regards

David

posted by dg 25 July | 19:21

~bob

I use that for pretty much everyone.

posted by puke & cry 25 July | 19:29

In all of my bbs and Haxx0r days, I used:

-Tox

now, I use:

-Jeff

for everyone.

posted by toxic 25 July | 20:40

Paul H.

posted by Doohickie 25 July | 20:47

Depends.

Could be:

Suck it,
Specklet

or:

Love you,
S.

or just:

S.

posted by Specklet 25 July | 20:58

Sometimes nothing if it's a conversation by email, mostly just my name or first initial if you're extra special (though few are). If it's a request then usually something like "Thanks again, Megan". I have a school one with my lab contact info and position that goes on school/TA related stuff. It depends on the mood and I'm a moody, capricious person so whatever I feel like at that moment.

posted by LunaticFringe 25 July | 21:00

Have you ever tried to pick up your teeth with broken fingers?

I rmn yr hmbl srvnt,

Dewayne "Suppertime" Wingelous

posted by Divine_Wino 25 July | 21:29

Remember that scene from Smokey and the Bandit that begins with a wall of beer cans, then there's a LOUD-ASS burp and the beer cans fall away to reveal a hung-over Burt Reynolds?

I have that at the end of all my e-mails.

posted by jason's_planet 25 July | 21:49

I don't.

____________________________________________________________
Eamon Daly

posted by eamondaly 25 July | 21:57

I usually go with send help please.

posted by Pips 25 July | 22:13

Regards,

drezdn

posted by drezdn 25 July | 22:17

For ordinary casual stuff to people who know me, it's just

A.

posted by tangerine 25 July | 22:18

It really depends to whom I am sending the email.

To my mother:
"Love you!"

To my siblings or close friends: I don't sign off, actually. These are the people whose homes I just walk in to without knocking.

Other personal emails:
Valette

Professional emails (to coworkers):
Thanks!
Valette

Other professional emails get the full name, title, organization, number, and fax.

posted by rhapsodie 25 July | 22:43

I yearn for you tragically.
- A. T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army

posted by doctor_negative 26 July | 00:02

I yearn for you tragically.
- A. T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army

posted by doctor_negative 26 July | 00:02

Never click the button twice...

posted by doctor_negative 26 July | 00:03

My initials, full or first name.

posted by brujita 26 July | 01:29

Mine is rather overlong, businessy and complex. Jessamyn's seen it.

posted by chuckdarwin 26 July | 03:43

I usually say "cheers" or something similar and let my .sig do the rest. I have 500-odd weird sayings that change every 3 minutes with an ascii art 'logo' spelling out dabitch. Course, this is wasted on anyone who doesn't have a monospaced font in their email-reader, which is 70% of the people I mail, I'm guessing.

posted by dabitch 26 July | 04:03

From Work:
regards,
Sean.

======================
[my full name]
[company Name]
+44 (0) xxx xxxxxx

From Home:
s
x x

posted by seanyboy 26 July | 04:39

Depends on the person, and the mood of the email. If it deserves a "love", then I put in a Love, Hadjiboy. If it deserves a hug, then I put in a hug. Varies from email to email.

posted by hadjiboy 26 July | 06:27

work:
best wishes
first name (+ surname if first contact with client/person)

++++++
full name plus all letters after it
address
tel/fax
mobile
email

personal:
A x

posted by altolinguistic 26 July | 06:36

with some of my friends, I don't.

With others, it's

-b

With others, it's

Cheers,
B.

With people I don't really know, it's

Cheers,
Brigitte

With others it's

gaspode/brigitte

posted by gaspode 26 July | 08:28

Beijos,
Msali (for friends and loved ones)

Atenciosamente or Regards,
Msali (for business)

posted by msali 26 July | 08:50

friends: love/kisses/xxoo/filakia (Greek for "kisses")/hugs and kisses, t. (or, sometimes, "moi")

friendly: Cheers/Best/Happy Thursday (or whatever day)/Have a good Thursday, t., or taz

Stranger: Best regards, taz

unquantifiable: just "taz"

with first name or first+last name for some dealings

posted by taz 26 July | 09:04

I don't, normally. I tend to view e-mail more as a conversation than a series of letters. But my grandparents tend to be formal ("Dear rossi"), so they get a "Much love, rossi" at the end. My business correspondence always tends to have a "Thanks for the opportunity" line in it somewhere, so I sign off with a "Thanks again, rossi."

With friends, I also like to throw in the occasional odd sign-offs like "Hee Haw, Sam Wainwright" or "Word to Your Mother!" or "Keep on Truckin'!"

posted by jrossi4r 26 July | 09:59

jason's_planet, I'm stealing your signoff.

posted by Atom Eyes 26 July | 10:27

Yours truly,

Aqua Velvaa

posted by Hugh Janus 26 July | 10:30

Where'd the extra "a" come from? I didn't put it there.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 July | 10:31

still... spelled that way, it makes me think of "vulva". So it's all good.

posted by taz 26 July | 10:33

Funny, I was just thinking of vulva myself.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 July | 10:37

With my fam:
"Hugs and kisses,
muddgirl"

Work:
Name
Position
Department
Work #:
Cell #:

I don't use a sign-off like "best wishes" or anything at work; it seems to informal for the technical emails I usually send. Sometimes, I'll use "Thanks," before my sig, but that's it.

posted by muddgirl 26 July | 10:51

In the office it's a great long sig that has name, title, address, phone, fax.

For personal emails I'll just sign it Jan, or if I'm corresponding with someone I know well, I often don't add a sig at all, or I'll use this, which is so like me I could've modelled for it.

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by essexjan 26 July | 11:03

jason's_planet, I'm stealing your signoff.
posted by Atom Eyes 26 July | 10:27

Why, thank you, sir!

Burt doesn't have an account here but he wanted me to tell you that he was terribly flattered as well.

10-4, good buddy.

posted by jason's_planet 26 July | 21:40

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