Can anyone confirm or deny that progress is being made?I think
there may at least be changes. I wish I had a list of rules so I knew
when my signature would show up. I have observed today that if I use a
closing with a comma the signature will show up for the first email from
each person in a conversation. I wonder if this is how Google intends it to work?Unfortunately,
if I say "Thanks!" instead of "Thanks," the signature is trimmed even
on the first email in a conversation. I also experienced a couple random
times when a line or two at the bottom of my 3-4 line signature would
be trimmed (like what somnath17 mentioned). Also, I noticed that
(in messages that are not the first in a conversation) if I type
"Thanks," right above my signature sometimes Google will trim it and
sometimes it won't (the signature is always trimmed).Are you all seeing the same behavior or are my observations...
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It looks like Google may be making some progress but there are still problems. Things that I type at the bottom of an email may show up more often now, but the automatic signature that I crafted and want to be seen in my emails still does not.Pretending their answer was satisfactory, they have closed the forum we were trying to communicate on. Perhaps this linked forum will be its successor. Please post if you have valuable input. Thanks!
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In this linked forum Google has told us the following:"To answer your questions regarding the original decision, or providing
an option, let me stress that the team is moving towards improving
readability." "Signature trimming is part of reading, and is built for recipients.
Signatures break the flow of reading the conversation from the
perspective of the recipient, and so signature trimming is designed from
the point of view of the recipient -- your Gmail inbox as you read your
messages -- to hide the less important content so you can focus on the
more important content. You can still get to the signatures by expanding
them if you need or want to check something there.""I do want to be honest, the intent is to trim the signatures and leave them accessible via click."Google seems to believe that signatures are unimportant and we merely use them out of tradition. The company has decided that formality and everything else accomplished with signatures are...
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