Email Bragnature

An email bragnature is an email signature, also known as an email footer, comprised mostly of acronyms, accolades, and titles one writes of his or herself.

A simple email signature with a job title and contact information is not a bragnature because this information is most likely of use to general email recipients.

A lengthy email signature with unrelated titles, awards, and mostly meaningless (to most other people) acronyms is a bragnature. The general feel one gets of the bragnature is that the composer is very conceited and feels it critical to let others know of all titles and accomplishments even though they may be anywhere on the spectrum from impressive to ridiculous.

The email bragnature is not to be confused with the overly decorated email signature, that is to say, when an individual uses images and formatting in an attempt to turn the email signature into a great work of art that most modern email clients simple strip off the message when displaying it to the recipient thus resulting in a colossal waste of the designer's own time and effort. The email bragnature may or may not be decorated in such a way and it is irrelevant to the definition. The most common email bragnature is composed entirely out of plain ascii text. One can certainly combine the bragnature with graphics and attachments to further compound the obnoxiousness quality of the correspondence.

= The nobody amateur radio operator

Don Brown (.-- ----- .- ..-.) ARRL VE, FE, WØAF
Emergency Coordinator
ARES/ARRL
Mills County, IA

To be a member of the ARRL only requires you pay money, to be a VE requires nothing special as they pretty much let anyone with a license do this without regards to actual working knowledge of radio, and the rest is volunteer things that this guy again pays a bunch of money to do, is not really utilized anymore, and carries no real clout with anyone outside of a few amateur radio fan boys.

This is a verified bragnature. This guy coordinates nothing of importance.

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